On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:13:20PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated
> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming.
> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a
> little easier.  

You might consider stow or checkinstall.  The latter will generate a
package that duplicates what a "make install" does.  That way you can
install, remove and version-track your nifty thingies.

This assumes the machines are binary-compatible, mind.

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