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    What makes a program being 'installed'

    Sure, I won't write to it manually, it was a silly thought. I guess I know what I needed now to make my installer :) Thank you guys!!
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    What makes a program being 'installed'

    Oh that's cool, don't you know how to write manually to that metadata databases? Or how is that database called and where it is loacated? I looked for this but I'm not sure if what I found is accurate.
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    What makes a program being 'installed'

    Yeah, I see. Thanks! But then I need to run the installer always as root from the terminal, otherwise it will fail trying to access the /usr directory, right? So I could make a 'choose installation destination' dialog or install it directly in the user's directory home/user/games or something...
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    What makes a program being 'installed'

    Hello! I want to make an installer for my game so that the game is recognised as 'installed' on the system. Just like the GOG games installers. For that I need to know where to copy what files. I know that the actual files of a program go generally in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. The user files...
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