Each distribution has conventions for where specific file types should be
stored. The NUT project cannot possibly track all of these conventions, so the
documentation assumes the default installation directory prefix of
/usr/local/ups
when describing file locations. It also allows custom
builds of NUT to minimally conflict with files of a packaged installation.
The distributions tend not to change the base name of the files, so you
can search for drivers and configuration files in the package database
of installed files. For instance, on Debian or Ubuntu derivatives, you
can use dpkg --search usbhid-ups
to see where the drivers are stored.