CentOS - Jul 2007 - installing progs from source on CentOS

I'd like to install NagiosQL on CentOS, but I don't see a yum package 
for it, so I'm going to download the source code.

If I download it, where in CentOS's file system (i.e. in which 
directory) is the best place to untar, compile, and run it?

(Sorry, I've been spoiled by packages!)

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:58:02AM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo
alleged:
> I'd like to install NagiosQL on CentOS, but I don't see a yum
package
> for it, so I'm going to download the source code.
> 
> If I download it, where in CentOS's file system (i.e. in which 
> directory) is the best place to untar, compile, and run it?
Download it to your home directory (or a subdir), untar and build it as
yourself (not root!), and  su -c "make install".

For more complicated programs, I like to use
--prefix=/usr/local/$pkgname/$pkgversion so all of its files are easily
contained.  Then I create that directory, chown it to me, run 'make
install' as me, and chown it all to root afterwards.

-- 
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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