rplantz
June 11th, 2010, 12:21 AM
I like to do clean installs for new releases. My /home is in a separate partition, so it gets preserved.
Am I correct to assume that I would also need to put /opt in a separate partition if I want to preserve it in a clean install? I ask because Ubuntu does not use /opt, so it would be reasonable for the installer not to wipe it out in a clean install.
Also, am I correct that /opt is a good place to install programs that are not in the Ubuntu repositories? I use LaTeX a lot and am thinking of doing a native install of texlive rather than using the version in the Ubuntu repositories. That would allow me to more easily keep my texlive up to date. Ubuntu (Debian) tends to lag pretty far behind.
Am I correct to assume that I would also need to put /opt in a separate partition if I want to preserve it in a clean install? I ask because Ubuntu does not use /opt, so it would be reasonable for the installer not to wipe it out in a clean install.
Also, am I correct that /opt is a good place to install programs that are not in the Ubuntu repositories? I use LaTeX a lot and am thinking of doing a native install of texlive rather than using the version in the Ubuntu repositories. That would allow me to more easily keep my texlive up to date. Ubuntu (Debian) tends to lag pretty far behind.