<div dir="ltr">You might want to try checkinstall, which solves a lot of the problems of uninstalling, etc:<br><br><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall">https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Matthew Crews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailinglists@mattcrews.com" target="_blank">mailinglists@mattcrews.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey all, this is a relatively newbish question.<br>
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I'm comfortable with downloading and installing the source code to a program that I want to use, compile it, and use "make install" to install. That is the easy part.<br>
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Here's the hard part for me. What are the best practices for doing so?<br>
-Is there a specific subfolder I should be installing compiled programs to? IE /opt instead of /usr/bin ?<br>
-Is there a way to specify the subfolder?<br>
-Is there an easy way to uninstall said programs when I am ready to do so?<br>
-What is the best way to keep said programs up to date when a new version is available?<br>
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For the record, I am using Debian Stretch. Would it be better to take a program I want and make a .deb so that I can use dpkg or apt?<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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