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Re: [trinity-users] Re: [users] [users] installing icecat from source packages - how2 draft

From: "BorgLabs - Kate Draven" <borglabs4@...>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:57:15 -0400
On Tuesday 15 September 2020, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
> On 2020-09-15 09:08:58 phiebie@... wrote:
> > Hi Leslie Turriff via tde-users,
> >
> > > Anyway, once I'm in /usr/local, creating symbolic links is
> > > straightforward: the command format > is ln -s <target> <link>; so in
> > > his case, |		ln -s /usr/local/lib/icecat/icecat-bin
> > > /usr/local/bin |
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/icecat/icecat-bin is a file, right?
> > /usr/local/bin is a directory, right?
> > Linking a directory upon a file seems no good idea IMHO.
> > Regards, Peter.
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> 	Yeah.  I don't know how I came to do that.  (?)  What I should have done
> was
>
> |		cd /usr/local/bin
> |		ln -s ../icecat/icecat icecat
>
> which works just fine.
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A simple symlink from the Icecat directory to /usr/bin will make it globally 
usable by all.

Kate