Celtx and where to place programs that do not need "installing"

[Oceanwatcher]

I work in the tv and film industry and there is one program I install on all my computers: Celtx.

This is a preproduction tool to write scripts, plan a production etc. It exists for MS Win, Mac and Linux and is based on the Mozilla code.

It is what I would call a portable program on MS Win in the sense that you just download it and unpack it.

First of all, would it be a good thing to get this into the repo's somehow?

Second - where would you place this program? Should I make a Program Files folder in my /home folder? At least I would not need to re-install it if I do a re-install of the OS... What is the standard for something like this? RSSOwl also has this behaviour.

[Snowhog]

Re: Celtx and where to place programs that do not need "installing"

Installation - CeltxWiki - For Linux

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Celtx and where to place programs that do not need "installing"

So as long as I am the only user of my laptop, it is ok to keep it on the /home partition. But are there any standards that are recommended for cases like this?

[flarson]

Re: Celtx and where to place programs that do not need "installing"

Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and is followed more or less by various distributions. It doe not entirely specify this but recommends /usr/local and /opt. Since these things are done by each admin for their own machine about the only use for the standard is if another admin takes over the machine.

You want to keep in mind that /usr/local/bin will be in everyones path. If you put executables somewhere else you may need to make provisions to adjust users paths.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Celtx and where to place programs that do not need "installing"

Thank you. Good to know :-)