mikshaw
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Posted: May 11 2005,19:00 |
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It depends entirely on the application. The executables are in bin directories,
/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/X11R6/bin. I wouldn't touch /bin, since it's composed of executables vital to running the system.
Configuration files are in /etc...generally they are named according to the application.
Shared data is in /usr/share, /usr/local/share, /usr/X11R6/share, also typically named according to the application.
Some programs are installed into /opt/<programname>. These are usually self-contained programs that can be easily deleted. However, in DSL I think it's mostly for myDSL apps and for some system configs that are writeable by user 'dsl' (or members of the 'staff' group) such as bootlocal.sh. These probably shouldn't be removed in DSL.
There are probably a few program-specific files in other directories, such as lib, but unless you really know what you're doing you shouldn't mess with them.
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