I’ve been a big fan of both spaced repetition in general and the Anki spaced repetition system in particular for a long time now. So today, after a fresh new install and blinging out of Ubuntu 23.10, I decided to take the next step, as I often do with programs I use a lot, and try to build and compile it myself.
This turned out to be pretty easy! The docs warn that ./run is slower than the non-optimized build, but I don’t notice much of a difference on my machine. It did however leave me with the question: Where should I put the anki symlink to ./run?
The options which were in my $PATH at the time of writing:
(One of the nice things about the fish shell is that adding things to your path is super easy. Just run fish_add_path -U where/ever and it’s there for life! Even better, it adds to the front of the path, so you get this natural gradient of more-specific to less-specific to your needs. You can tell this project is my first time working with rustup! because the ~/.cargo/bin is so new!)
GPT-4 was kind enough to give me a rundown of what each of these is used for, which looks quite sensible:
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
~/.cargo/bin | Contains executables related to Rust programming, managed by Cargo. |
~/.local/bin | Common place for user-installed software, specific to your user account. |
~/.fzf/bin | Likely contains the executable for fzf, a command-line fuzzy finder. |
/usr/local/sbin | For system administration programs installed locally, not part of the system-wide installation. |
/usr/local/bin | Contains user programs installed system-wide, not part of the system distribution. |
/usr/sbin | For software that is part of the standard system distribution, used for system administration. |
/usr/bin | Contains binary executables for software that comes with the operating system and additional packages. |
/sbin | Contains system management and administration programs. |
/bin | Contains essential binary executables required for the system to boot and run. |
/usr/games | For game executables. |
/usr/local/games | Similar to /usr/games, but for games installed locally. |
/snap/bin | Contains executables for applications installed through Snap. |
Looks like ~/.local/bin/ is the place to put it!