[X4U] Is the /usr/local directories installed when XCode is not

Rod Buchanan lists at sofstats.com
Tue Jul 13 15:17:49 PDT 2010


On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>> On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Tommy Bollman wrote:
>> 
>>> I wonder if any of you guys have  the  /usr/local/  directories  if  XCode tools are not installed.
>>> 
>>> a.) You shouldn't get up a program icon, or be able to start XCode from spotlight.
>>> b.) if you type ls -ld /usr/local then there should be nothing.
>>> 
>>> I really need to figure this out, because I have asked a user to create some directories below /usr/local.
>> 
>> I have a Mac Mini running 10.5.8.  No developer tools installed, no /usr/local directory.
> 
> How are you looking for it? the /usr directory is not shown in Finder but you can look for it and inside it in Terminal or via the Finder's Go->Go To Folder… menu item.

Command line.  I'm no stranger to Unix shells. :)

-- 
Rod



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