Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote:
Before I learned how to compile CVS, my major concern was "How can I keep the stable version and CVS installed at the same time on linux." This was, of course, no trouble because the stable version was installed to /usr/bin/ and the CVS version was installed to /usr/local/bin/. The reason I had worried was the autopackage nightly builds. When I installed an autopackage it installed in the place of the stable version.
Having both versions has been a good experience. It is a safety net. If a old feature breaks in CVS it is likely I can still use that feature in the stable version. Best of all I can do this without having to revert to an earlier version by uninstalling and reinstalling.
I go one step farther, and put Inkscape in its own installation directory, with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/inkscape ...blah....
This gives it its own directory, leaving everything else in /usr and /usr/local alone. And deleting it later is trivial.
Bob