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I downloaded a tar of Ovito, now I don't how to continue. The principal idea is to place this in /opt, but is this a good idea? The directory structure is like the following

ovito-2.9.0-x86_64
├── bin
│   ├── ovito
│   ├── ovitos
│   └── qt.conf
├── CHANGELOG.txt
├── include
│   └── python3.5m
├── lib
│   ├── ovito
│   └── python3.5
├── LICENSE.txt
├── README.txt
└── share
    └── ovito

And my doubt is: Is it a good idea place the content of ovito-2.9.0-x86_64/bin in /bin, the content of ovito-2.9.0-x86_64/include in /usr/include, and so on.

This is a childishness but I need an something like a standard procedure to install the program.

Boris Valderrama
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    You can use /opt. – schrodingerscatcuriosity Aug 23 '19 at 00:42
  • That is very elegant, but change the PATH variable is less elegant. – Boris Valderrama Aug 23 '19 at 01:14
  • Are you sure? This is my $PATH : /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin – Boris Valderrama Aug 23 '19 at 01:23
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    As long as the path to the binaries for whatever program you want to use appear in your PATH somewhere, it really shouldn't matter where it's actually located. Only exceptions would be badly written software with hard-coded references and having additional path definitions for packages that provide shared libraries and include headers for other applications to make use of. Using export PATH="/path/to/ovito-2.9.0-x86_64/bin;$PATH" should effectively activate the application for general use. – SHawarden Aug 23 '19 at 02:57

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