I don’t like the mess some software makes when it install in my system so I want to move it to a more appropriate place.

My questions are:

1- Where is the most appropriated directory for this? (some hidden folder made with this purpose, I thought linux had something like this as a standard)

2- How I move it without breaking anything?

  • bahmanm@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    RE Go: Others have already mentioned the right way, thought I’d personally prefer ~/opt/go over what was suggested.

    RE Perl: To instruct Perl to install to another directory, for example to ~/opt/perl5, put the following lines somewhere in your bash init files.

    export PERL5LIB="$HOME/opt/perl5/lib/perl5${PERL5LIB:+:${PERL5LIB}}"
export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="$HOME/opt/perl5${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT:+:${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}}"
export PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"$HOME/opt/perl5\""
export PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=$HOME/opt/perl5"
export PATH="$HOME/opt/perl5/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"

    Though you need to re-install the Perl packages you had previously installed.

  • lelgenio@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    ~/go is created when compiling go programs, you can change it’s location with the GOPATH environment variable to something like GOPATH=$HOME/.local/go, and moving the directory there.

    Never seen ~/perl5, could you provide the output of perl -V

  • jack000999@lemmy.fmhy.net
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    1 year ago

    The appropriate directory’s are the XDG Base Directory, check this page on arch wiki to move them correctly. You can also use xdg-ninja and it will scan for these extra directories on your $HOME and tell you what you need to do to move them to their appropriate location or not if these directories are hardcoded or cannot be moved.