What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

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Subject: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?
From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:46:37 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 5239F50D.7070105@holgerdanske.com>

debian-user:

Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide softwarefrom source tarballs? For example, Java SDK and FreeCiv:


    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

    http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page


TIA,

David

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