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

["recoverym4n@gmail.com" <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

 Hi.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> debian-user:
> 
> Is there a canonical location for build/installing system-wide
> software from 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

Please invoke 'man hier' and read it.

Accoring to the man page, 

/usr/local This is where programs which are local to the site typically go.

Reco