Recommended way to deal with locally-compiled apps

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:08:14PM +1000, CB wrote:

> How do you guys deal with apps you choose to compile and/or install 
> yourself? (particularly where there are ubuntu packages available but 
> you want/need a more recent version).
> 
> Is there a standard place to put them, good practise to avoid conflicts 
> with packaged stuff, etc?

Two places are available for locally installed software: /usr/local and
/opt.  /usr/local is the traditional "swamp" where all such packages are
mixed together, while /opt is intended to have one subdirectory for each
software package installed there (making it easier to maintain).

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 - mdz