Re: Best directory from which to unpack packages?

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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Best directory from which to unpack packages?
On Wed March 2 2005 12:13, wrote:
> What I prefer:
>
> tar tvzf (tarball path). Make certain everything's in its own directory.
> If so, extract in ~ Otherwise, make a directory, and extract in it. Easy
> clean afterward, only need to be root for the install step.
>

If I have the tarball in my /home/tigerflag directory and extract into ~ will
the app be available to all the other users?

> Perhaps for some reason the programme's loading several instances of
> itself.


They are. And I don't understand why.
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