On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:58:02AM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo alleged:

I'd like to install NagiosQL on CentOS, but I don't see a yum package for it, so I'm going to download the source code.

If I download it, where in CentOS's file system (i.e. in which directory) is the best place to untar, compile, and run it?

Download it to your home directory (or a subdir), untar and build it as yourself (not root!), and su -c "make install".

For more complicated programs, I like to use --prefix=/usr/local/$pkgname/$pkgversion so all of its files are easily contained. Then I create that directory, chown it to me, run 'make install' as me, and chown it all to root afterwards.