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I have developed my own Bash Script (to undo the last APT commands), and now I'm looking for the best directory to install it.

Is the /usr/bin always the best choice?

Just for information this is my script:

https://gitlab.com/fabio.dellaria/apt-rollback

and this is a little demo:

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maxwatt
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If you intend to make it available to all users, you should place it to /usr/local/bin, excerpt from below answer.

/usr/local/bin is for normal user programs not managed by the distribution package manager, e.g. locally compiled packages. You should not install them into /usr/bin because future distribution upgrades may modify or delete them without warning.

Taken from usr-bin-vs-usr-local-bin-on-linux

Liso
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For the case you're asking about, I agree with Liso's answer saying /usr/local/bin (or perhaps /usr/local/sbin), because your script kind of needs to act on the entire system.

But for completeness I want to add that if you would like to install a script under your own account without root access (which can be a good alternative for programs that are not related to system administration), I would suggest putting it in $HOME/.local/bin. As noted in an answer on Unix & Linux SE, this directory is specified by the systemd file-hierarchy spec as the equivalent of /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin for individual users' programs. It seems to be catching on for Linux systems that don't use systemd as well.

David Z
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