https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8656/usr-bin-vs-usr-local-bin-on-linux
/bin(and/sbin) were intended for programs that needed to be on a small/partition before the larger/usr, etc. partitions were mounted. These days, it mostly serves as a standard location for key programs like/bin/sh, although the original intent may still be relevant for e.g. installations on small embedded devices./sbin, as distinct from/bin, is for system management programs (not normally used by ordinary users) needed before/usris mounted./usr/binis for distribution-managed normal user programs.There is a
/usr/sbinwith the same relationship to/usr/binas/sbinhas to/bin./usr/local/binis for normal user programs not managed by the distribution package manager, e.g. locally compiled packages. You should not install them into/usr/binbecause future distribution upgrades may modify or delete them without warning./usr/local/sbin, as you can probably guess at this point, is to/usr/local/binas/usr/sbinto/usr/bin.
In addition, there is also /opt which is for monolithic non-distribution packages, although before they were properly integrated various distributions put Gnome and KDE there. Generally you should reserve it for large, poorly behaved third party packages such as Oracle.
