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Which directory contains additional information about installed packages?

The correct answer is D. /usr/share/doc. /usr/share/doc is the standard Filesystem Hierarchy Standard location where package documentation and supplementary information are stored on Linux systems.

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Question

Which directory contains additional information about installed packages?

Options

  • A/usr/share/documentation
  • B/usr/local/share/documentation
  • C/usr/local/doc
  • D/usr/share/doc
  • E/usr/packages/doc

How the community answered

(56 responses)
  • A
    5% (3)
  • B
    11% (6)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    80% (45)
  • E
    2% (1)

Why each option

/usr/share/doc is the standard Filesystem Hierarchy Standard location where package documentation and supplementary information are stored on Linux systems.

A/usr/share/documentation

/usr/share/documentation is not a path defined by the FHS and is not used by standard Linux distributions.

B/usr/local/share/documentation

/usr/local/share/documentation is not a standard path; /usr/local is reserved for software installed manually outside the package manager.

C/usr/local/doc

/usr/local/doc is not the standard location; documentation for manually installed software may optionally land in /usr/local, but this path is not canonical for package-managed software.

D/usr/share/docCorrect

The FHS specifies /usr/share/doc as the directory for architecture-independent documentation installed by packages, including changelogs, copyright files, READMEs, and examples. Package managers such as apt and rpm populate subdirectories here (e.g., /usr/share/doc/packagename/) when a package is installed.

E/usr/packages/doc

/usr/packages/doc does not exist in the FHS and is not used by any standard Linux distribution.

Concept tested: FHS package documentation directory location

Source: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.html

Topics

#filesystem hierarchy#/usr/share/doc#package documentation#Linux directories

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