[xubuntu-users] Question about the Software Center in 14.04

[Benjamin Shadwick]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> Servers are a separate problem: I maintain a few where I keep a much
> more extensive list, because many of the items are not in any repos, and
> have to be downloaded and installed in the traditional GNU
> configure/make/install manner. And some of them have deeply conflicting
> dependencies on weird stuff :-)
>

I've had good luck installing non-repo software to /opt, with symbolic
links in /usr/local/bin (which is otherwise generally empty but is in the
default path) to binaries of interest. This helps keep it from stepping on
the toes of package-managed files.
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