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I am making quite some binaries, scripts, etc. that I want to install easily (using my own RPM packages). Since I want them accessible for everyone, my intuition would be to put them in /usr/bin;

  • no need to change PATH

However, my executables now disappear in a pool of all the others; how can I find back all the executables I put there in an easy way?

I was thinking of:

  • A subdirectory in /usr/bin (I know I cannot do this; just to illustrate my thinking).
  • Another directory (/opt/myself/bin) and linking each executable to /usr/bin (lots of work).
  • Another directory (/opt/myself/bin) and linking the directory to /usr/bin (is this possible?).

What would be the "best, most Linux-compliant way" to do this?

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  • I just realized I'd better post this question on unix & linux stack overflow... I reposted the question there.
    – Chris Maes
    Apr 2, 2014 at 12:30

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Most systems have /usr/local/bin in their PATH. It is meant for exactly this purpose, to contain binaries installed locally rather than from the repositories. Also there is /usr/local/sbin for locally-installed superuser binaries.

See the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

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  • /usr/local/bin/ is only for local binaries, not really for binaries that are distributed in an rpm..
    – Chris Maes
    Apr 2, 2014 at 18:49
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    Yes, but he apparently wants to treat them as local, otherwise just use the normal directories.
    – ssmy
    Apr 2, 2014 at 20:16
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The most straight-forward solution would be to change the system-wide PATH variable. All the files in /etc/profile.d are automatically sourced on login, so adding a file which changes the PATH variable for all users.

For example, do the following as root: cat <<EOF >/etc/profile.d/custom_path.sh export PATH=$PATH:/opt/myself/bin EOF

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