<p>Using /opt for 'optional' software is something that I have always done and as you have mentioned it should not make any difference.  I have done an 'ls -l' on /opt/geany/share/geany/geany.glade and it returns the following:</p>
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<p>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 607K Aug  2 16:08 /opt/geany/share/geany/geany.glade</p>
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<p>which should be readable to me as my account would get the 'other' access permission which is 'r'.</p>
<p>Odd thing is that when I install the distribution version of geany it fails with the same problem and the distribution version installs it to /usr.</p>

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