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Where to install custom software packages on FreeBSD?

In Linux, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, /opt is the designated location for add-on application software packages. Thus, when developing my own software package, which is not a ...
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Where should I install template scripts? [closed]

If I have a program that copies and modifies scripts or code-files as part of its operation, where should these other "default" or "template" scripts be installed?
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How to package (where to install) a stand-alone software bundle

Consider some application that is intended to be built in its destination directory and whose subdirectory structure does not respect Linux conventions. Assume in particular that there is no install ...
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By convention, where do packages go to install on other machines?

I'm working on a script that will scp a tarball to another machine and extract and install it's contents via ssh. I have to install this script as one bash file and one tarball. I could install the ...
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Where to put files on a installer? [closed]

I have a program that I am going to package in a .deb. Where should I put files for my program? I have had a look at the structure of things like Epoptes but I cannot figure out where I should put ...
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