[CentOS] software installation - good practice

Wed Nov 11 20:21:54 UTC 2009
Neil Aggarwal <neil at JAMMConsulting.com>

Carlos:

> I tend to try out many open source apps/packages

I make a separate directory for each application in /usr/local
so they are isolated from each other.

You can also use KVM to set up virtual machines to be
able to test and then drop the entire VM if you don't
like it.  That will keep your main system completely
clean.

	Neil

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