Thanks for the instructions, Dak!

Just a note, the N900 has tar with gzip on it. So you can "tar xzvf" on your device without a problem. It avoids the permissions problems of the other methods.

Also /home/user/opt is also just /opt so you can shorten your path a bit.

Is there a specific reason why you choose /usr/local/bin for your symlink, instead of /usr/bin? Wouldn't it be easier to just add it to /usr/bin?