I am working on a project for Ubuntu App Showdown Contest (https://launchpad.net/wuuzy) and I wanted to know if it is possible to install things like libraries in /usr. My project, in fact, use an extension system to improve itself with more options. It is like a plugin system and it generates libs which are currently installed in /usr. Also my app generates a gir file installed in /usr/lib/girepository-1.0/ and in /usr/local/share/gir-1.0/. It uses also a gsettings schema which is installed /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/. Naturally I install also the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications even if I have a copy of it in /opt/PROJECT.
So what I really want to know is if this installations targets are allowed for an app which want to join to the Ubuntu App Showdown Contest.
Best Answer
The rules for the contest is that your application must entirely run in
/opt. While in future contests we hope to be able to relax this requirement (as we sandbox Ubuntu better in the future), right now we need to require that your app runs fully in/opt.