How correctly install etcdctl?

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Hello! I try to install etcdctl and I’m a little misconfused…
Via apt it’s installed at

which etcdctl
/usr/bin/etcdctl

But as I see in KodeCloud manuals and other resources, they suggest to install etcdctl that way:

cd /tmp
export RELEASE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/etcd-io/etcd/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)
wget https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/download/${RELEASE}/etcd-${RELEASE}-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf etcd-${RELEASE}-linux-amd64.tar.gz ; cd etcd-${RELEASE}-linux-amd64
mv etcd etcdctl  /usr/local/bin/

Which difference with installation at /usr/local/bin/ or /usr/bin/etcdctl?

Upd: I mean that both of the directories exists at the PATH by default… It’s enough for usage the binary… or I missed something?

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Traditionally software from distribution packages have their binaries in /usr/bin whereas software which is installed “manually” are placed in /usr/local/bin.

Have a look at Wikipedia: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for an overview!