Re: [CentOS] software installation - good practice

Carlos Santana wrote:

Howdy,

I tend to try out many open source apps/packages - games, editors to media tools. I have a bad habit of downloading and extracting source in the /var/tmp directory and then doing configure-make-install process. I am not sure of best practice (good practices) to be followed when installing any software. For example how and where to keep the src. Any comments and/or resources would be really helpful.

I am usually using this way ./configure --prefix=/opt/sofware-name && make && make install (to uninstall rm -fr /opt/software-name)

Checkinstall is also helpful in your way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall , http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

-- Eero, RHCE