Manually Adjust File Locations

Preface

While many packages use standardized build systems to correctly compile and install their files, some more straightforward packages don’t offer this comfort. Instead, they usually supply some sort of shell script to install files. Much like Makefiles that we explored previously, these aren’t standardized and differ for each package. Let’s approach this problem with an example.

Example package

For this example, we’ll use the following simple package. It contains one executable shell script that reads a file and prints its contents to the terminal. The executable script is installed to /usr/local/bin, and the data file read by the script is installed to /opt/package. This is facilitated by the following install script: