Re: Installing and Updating Programs from Source

2018-01-25 Thread Brien Dieterle
You might want to try checkinstall, which solves a lot of the problems of uninstalling, etc: https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Hey all, this is a relatively newbish question. > > I'm comfortable with downloading and installing the sourc

Re: Installing and Updating Programs from Source

2018-01-25 Thread Matt Graham
On 2018-01-24 16:59, Andrew McRobb wrote: Is there a specific subfolder I should be installing compiled programs to? IE /opt instead of /usr/bin ? Things that are compiled from source are usually put in /usr/local , because your distro's package manager will leave that directory and its subd