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2189 :: Help with System Wide Installation

• jrichards (orginal) [2016-04-08T14:50:04+02:00] view original

  I want to do a system wide installation of Nim. I have searched the forums and haven't found anything that clearly defines how this can be accomplished. Do I just need to move nim and nimble to /usr/local/bin? Or is there more to it. Some simple guidance would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks Jim

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• lazypenguin (orginal) [2016-04-08T16:18:24+02:00] view original

  Yes, generally a "system wide installation" means installing it into a location where you have execute permissions and is part of your PATH. Compiling and copying the executable to /usr/local/bin should be fine as I believe it's a common path location. Personally, I prefer to clone the projects into my /opt/ directory and then link to the binaries in /usr/local/bin.

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• amcl (orginal) [2016-04-08T19:09:36+02:00] view original

  Installing a package to /opt/package also has the virtue it is trivial to remove later. In Nim's case this is simple, but some packages have many executables or scripts. An alternative to remove the need to manually link each /opt/package/bin/* into /usr/local/bin is to add something like this to /etc/skel/.profile:

  
  for pkg in $( /bin/ls -1 /opt 2> /dev/null ); do
      [ -d "/opt/$pkg/bin" ] && PATH="/opt/$pkg/bin":$PATH
  done
  Run

  Most packages follow the standard package/bin/* structure, and this is what a 'configure --prefix=/opt/package' will produce also.

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• jrichards (orginal) [2016-04-09T00:36:06+02:00] view original

  Thanks for the info. I kept having trouble trying to install nimble so I decided to leave it alone and use from my home directory and everything works fine.

  Again ThankYou

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• Araq (orginal) [2016-04-09T17:04:31+02:00] view original

  Nim comes with an install.sh script that supports system wide installations.

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