Re: File placement

[u07ih abdn ac uk]

>   Could anybody explain me, or point me to a document explaining, what the
> prefered location when of installing software on a gnome system? Up until
> now my program efforts has resulted in just a single binary, which a
> naturally put in the /usr/local/bin/, but now I am working on a project
> containing both an executable, a .glade, some .xml and a .lib files - and I
> have no idea of where to put it! I could make an entry in /usr/local/ but
> the how does other people find my lib and executable files?

Usually stuff like that is put into $(prefix)/share/<program-name>
and icons are put into $(prefix)/share/pixmaps/<program-name>

iain