Where do you install software that is not obtained through a package manager?

Question

linux

Let's say you need a program for which there is no deb/rpm/etc package, but only a .tar.gz archiver. Where in the file system do you put such programs? To your home directory? In /opt? More options?

Answer 1

/usr/local - for built-from-source
/opt/ for prebuilt binary packages.

Answer 2

More options?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall

Answer 3

Everything has already been invented before us: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Answer 4

If I collected it myself (as well as for my own programs) - /usr/local
If the package is ready, but it doesn’t matter where it goes - usually in /opt, although earlier I also shoved these into /usr/local (for example, rar, mibbrowser, xnview)

Answer 5

For some reason in ~/.pkgs