I was using ‘/opt/gnome2′ as install prefix for my Gnome developement on my SuSE Linux 9.3 box. One fine day, the ‘/opt/gnome2′ folder disappeared suddenly. I didn’t know how. I ran YaST update before that. So, I assumed that YaST probably done something with this. Moreover, I never login as root on my machine. Neither I do ‘su’. Intially, I grant all access to my regular username using ‘sudo’. It seems that YaST has sent a mail to the root after purging ‘/opt/gnome2′ directory on which it has no business at all. But since I didn’t login as root for a long time, I was not aware of this. Here is the message.
Hallo SuSE Linux user.
Filesystem hierarchy was significantly changed in SuSE Linux 9.0 and
all GNOME/GTK related programs now reside in /opt/gnome.Following directories was removed from live system and moved to
/var/adm/backup/GNOME:
/opt/gnome2Please check if there is anything useful and then remove them.
GNOME themes can be simply moved to /opt/gnome/share/themes, all other
programs must be re-installed.Your SuSE GNOME team
So, if you have SuSE > 9.0 and your ‘/opt/gnome2′ disappears, don’t get puzzled. You did a YaST update. So, don’t use ‘/opt/gnome2′ prefix on a SuSE box.