Where does one store portable executables?

[paul1149]

I've got a couple of portable executables that I don't know how to integrate into the system. For instance, Palemoon is in a folder. I want to park it in the right place and then create a launcher to it, on the desktop and the start menu, for lack of a better term.


I also have a portable windows executable that I can fire directly, but which I cannot fire via launcher. If I park it at /opt or /usr/bin I keep getting access violations, or nothing happens at all.


Thanks for any guidance.

[shengchieh]

Window executables will not run on linux natively.  Use WINE.  Documentations are in

www.winehq.org

I would think LL manual also have some.

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Also I would not mixed linux and window executables.  Create a new directory in /usr local/ or something (e.g., /usr/local/window).  Some links on file structure are

http://www.debianadmin.com/linux-directo...rview.html (Linux Directory Structure Overview; 3/23/08)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems (Comparison of file systems) (Comparison of file systems; current)
http://omnitraining.net/free-articles/19...ermissions (Back to Basics: Unix File Permissions; 2/17/10)
http://www.junauza.com/2009/03/important...-that.html (Important Linux File Directories That Users Should Know About; 3/5/09)
http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/understand...ry-layout/ (Understanding the Linux Directory Layout; 2/5/09)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/...index.html (Learn Linux, 101: Find and place system files; 6/9/10)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/...index.html (Learn Linux, 101: Maintain the integrity of filesystems; 8/24/10)
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/09/18/gui...-in-linux/ (Guide to disks and disk partitions in Linux; 9/18/11)
http://www.howtogeek.com/117435/htg-expl...explained/ (HTG Explains: The Linux Directory Structure Explained; 6/25/12)
http://www.tecmint.com/linux-directory-s...explained/ (Linux Directory Structure and Important Files Paths Explained; 9/16/13)

Sheng-Chieh

[paul1149]

[color=rgb(51, 68, 102)]http://www.debianadmin.com/linux-directo...rview.html[/color] (Linux Directory Structure Overview; 3/23/08)

Thanks, that link gave me this, which seems to be the best fit. I'll see how permissions go.




[color=rgb(0, 1, 3)]/usr[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(0, 1, 3)]A sub hierarchy to the root file system which is a User data directory. Contains user specific utilities and applications. You will again see a lot of important but not critical file systems are mounted. Here you would again find a bin, sbin & lib directory which contains non-critical user and system binaries and related libraries and a share directory. Also found here are the include directory with include files[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(0, 1, 3)]/usr/bin[/color]
[/color][color=rgb(0, 1, 3)]Contains Non-Essential Non-critical command binaries for users.[/color]