If anything distributing Linux software is leaps and bounds ahead of any of system. Just apt-get/yum or whatever your distro uses and you get the app all instal

If anything distributing Linux software is leaps and bounds ahead of any of system. Just apt-get/yum or whatever your distro uses and you get the app all installed, configured, files tracked. Easily updated. And making a package from a source tarball is as easy as checkinstall.