<quote who="Samuli Suonpaa"> > > If you'd like to easily have links to it in /usr/local/bin, > /usr/local/man/man1 etc, have a look a package 'stow'. I install > all my locally compiled software in directories under > /usr/local/stow and have stow make the links needed. thanks! ive heard of stow, kept forgetting to try it out. i will try it out soon ..i don't know what i'd do without having filesystem links .... nate