Ubuntu - Wordfast Pro install directory

Elliot Everett wrote:

I am going to take the new Wordfast Pro for a spin on Ubuntu 8.04. It installed fine and it works, but it is on my /home/username/desktop directory.

Where is the proper place to install the program (e.g., /usr/bin/)?

Thanks in advance.
Elliot

Elliot Everett wrote:

Thanks, I put it there too and it seems to work. But there should be a specific place where the Linux-heads put applications like these, according to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see link). I could put it under /opt or something, but I don't know if the config files for my specific user will go in the right place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

In the end, it's likely much ado about nothing.

Thierry Destinobles wrote:

Hi!

I wanted to know how it worked out for you, because I heard here and there that you have to use MS Word to make it work properly, is it ok with OpenOffice.org?

wibbleypants wrote:

Thing is, if I remember rightly, it doesn't have an installer proper, which would run with root priveleges and therefore be able to install it in /usr/bin or whatever. It's just a standalone executable. Same thing with OmegaT. In fact, looking at my home directory, there's quite a few programs "shipped" without installers. If you built it from source, then proper installation is part of the process (./configure - make - sudo make install). But of course, unlike just about all other linux software, the source isn't available.

You could always log in as root and copy the executable to /usr/bin, but then it wouldn't know where to find it's support files and you don't want to put all that baggage in /usr/bin.

En fin, you might as well leave it where it is.