Quote Originally Posted by The_Fallen View Post
That's what I love about this forum. In my original post I stated that I've actually read the documentation, but still I get a one-line-response with a link just there...
Yes, and?
Did you actually read that completely?
I do not think so, otherwise you would not ask these questions.

Now, if you have a problem understanding something in that text, please ask that specific question.

Otherwise, Windows, Linux, MacOs, whatever ALL work the same. You have a set of executables, libraries and other files. The executable needs to be able to find the libraries and the other files. Well, install them in the correct folders and that is it.

You can also install everything in your own folder, and that too is explained in the text.

The only problems with linux are:
1. The distributions can have different standard directories.
2. Most packages are preferably installed by your distribution.

What does this mean? Read the documentation about packaging for the targetted distributions. To keep it simple, target the most known ones. For the rest, distribute the source code and ask for others to create packages for you.