[SOLVED] Is /opt empty by default?

Hello,
i had some issue installing a third party program. I downloaded it as binary, the only thing to do was to place it to /opt. It was a tar.bz2 file. it contents was opt folder, then PorgramName folder and so on. so i issued:
sudo tar xjvf archive.tar.bz2
while being in the root(/) folder. everything looked like to run smoothly, but after that i wanted to check /opt and it had 0700 permissions and owner 1003.... wtf? i changed user and group to root and permissions to 755 and opened the /opt directory and the only contents in it was the content from the archive. Is /opt by default empty or did i screw something up? System seems to work normal. I really don't remember what was in /opt nor what permissions did it have before i issued that command. Could this way off unpacking the archive break something?
Last edited by ancrouter (2011-10-06 21:43:52)

/opt will be empty unless you install something into it e.g. Java
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _Standards
Are you saying you installed the program without using pacman?  Using a PKGBUILD is the way to go here.

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