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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 18:25:30 JST Aral Balkan

   A good to place install command-line apps on Linux is $HOME/.local/bin

   Sadly, Linux distributions don’t consistently have that folder on your system path.

   So I wrote up a quick gist with instructions on how to add it to your path on common Linux shells:

   https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/local-bin-path.md

   (If yours isn’t listed, merge request are welcome.) ;)

   Kitten also now warns you if it detects its not on your path with a link to that gist during installation. (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/178)

   :kitten:💕

   #linux #Kitten

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 18:31:10 JST 翠星石

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     @aral >Linux shells
     Looking at the page, you document GNU bash, zsh and fish, all of which don't care about what kernel is in use, rather that GNU libraries are available for interfacing;
     app-shells/zsh
     `-- sys-apps/groff
     `-- sys-libs/ncurses
     
     app-shells/fish
     `-- sys-apps/coreutils
     `-- sys-libs/ncurses
     `-- sys-devel/gettext
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 18:34:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Serge

     @xerge It’s just part of the freedesktop standard. ~/bin was/is also widely used and is supported by some distributions.

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     Serge (xerge@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 18:34:44 JST Serge

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     @aral why in a hidden folder? I’ve used ~/bin for as long as I can remember. Works just fine. Just add it to the user path.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 20:17:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Raul Portales

     @Sh41 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112529350813386601

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     Raul Portales (sh41@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 20:17:24 JST Raul Portales

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     @aral why the "."?
     I normally put those utilities under $HOME/bin and I have a $HOME/local for more complex tools (needing config and so on) basically the same as "/usr/local" but only for this user