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

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On 2020-09-15 12:57:15 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2020, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
> > On 2020-09-15 09:08:58 phiebie@xxxxxxx 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

	Correct.  But for some reason I can't imagine, I linked the wrong thing. :-)
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