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It's easy when you know how.

Sometimes when members on here are struggling with what seems basic and obvious I have to try and take myself back to my first Linux install and how totally befuddled I was.

/sbin
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin
wtf?

And that was just one tiny aspect of what I was trying to learn. And eventually did (Thanks in some part to many people who helped along the way).

If you think a members question shows a lack of effort (to various degrees many do) you can always just ignore it.
Rather than posting RTFM and some usually unrelated links.
It comes across as someone trying to compensate for their own feelings of inadequacy not someone trying to help.

My first Linux experience involved downloading 144  1.44 MB  5.25 inch floppy disks over a 2800 baud modem.  It too two weeks connected to my dial up provider, who about 3 days into this process called me up and asked what the hell I was doing being connected 24/7 to his modem banks.  I told him I was downloading slackware.  He said - oh - carry on.

This eventually resulted in us creating the GNU-Linux 1 program
http://www.nylxs.com/docs/gnu_linux1.c4-5correct.html

http://www.nylxs.com/docs/gnu_linux1.c4-5correct.pdf