I've been runnning Ubuntu on my home PC for a little while now, but I'm running into the following problem. If I want to install a program myself (say compiled from source) that's newer than the version in the Ubuntu binary repository or that is not (yet) in the repository, I'm afraid to install it behind the package manager's back in the standard locations since the package manager would then no longer have an accurate picture of what versions of things I have. I'm currently just installing this kind of stuff to a programs directory in my home directory, but it seems kind of silly to have to avoid putting programs in the standard locations. So, what I want to know is, is there a better way to do this? Do other distros (say, Gentoo) have this problem as well?
Thanks for any advice. -Derek
