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