[Sussex] folder permissions

[Desmond Armstrong]

/bin contains links, it is not the correct place to extract applications to.
The extraction processes should always be done as normal user within 
their profile.
For programs which are not on the DVD or come directly from Mandriva, 
these should be installed in /opt. You will find that Picasa  and 
GoogleEarth are both installed in /opt and I like to put Firefox3 there 
as well. Of course you do require root privilege to install anything. Of 
course, you require root privilege to write outside of your user profile 
(/home/user).
You login as root using terminal window or graphical but just remember 
the dangers in so doing.
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> While I'm asking questions - Am I right in thinking the best place to 
> extract applications to is /bin? I have tried this, but again don't 
> have write permissions. Please clear up this confusion for me - thanks...