Re: [CentOS] software installation - good practice

Robert Heller wrote:

At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:27 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

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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.

It does not really matter where you keep the source.

*I* unload the source either somewhere under my home directory or on my

<snip> What's become common is /opt/src. My boss, closer to older style, has me using /usr/local/opt.

mark