/usr/local missing

Yes, there's no reason not to just create that directory if you want it. I would make its ownership and permissions conform with the others in the /usr directory.

Hi Kabren,
I think the installer used to create such empty directories but maybe it doesn't now. Since they are empty, you can make them yourself. However, I would think that most of the installers that use that install root by default will create the directories for you. If you have an app that doesn't or just want to create the directories yourself, you could do it with a command like:

sudo mkdir /usr/local /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/info /usr/local/lib /usr/local/man /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/share/man

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Gary
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Kabren,

What Gary suspects is true. Prior to Tiger the /usr/local directory was created during installation of the OS. But beginning with Tiger it is not. I'm not sure why this change was made but I've run into at least one software installer that failed on Tiger because it expected /usr/local to already be present.

As the other posts have said you can simply create the directory yourself. If you run into an installer that's failing because /usr/local is not present you may want to contact the s/w author and let them know they need to modify their installer to accomodate Tiger systems.

Steve

Kabren,
my machine has /usr/local permissions as follows:

$ ls -ld /usr/local/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Jun 9 15:58 /usr/local/

Mihalis.