/usr/local/bin

how valid s the following claim that,

if you want the script to be executable by others, you could use /usr/local/bin or another system as a convenient location for adding new programs , which i have read in the book "Beginning Linux Programming" by Neil Mathews

glennsperf

Hi, with Mandriva /usr/local/bin is where user installed packages from source binaries are installed to. Like if i want the latest perl, qt4, python, etc that are not available from my normal repo Then the make program installs them here.

The linker (ld) sets up the appropriate links so if I call the program /usr/local/bin is checked as well as the /usr/bin. You can do it manually, by creating links from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin

There is probably a neater way of doing this, but generally the make install program does it automagically.