For dealing with this problem, as well as anything that's not already packaged, the checkinstall utility is very helpful. It intercepts filesystem calls and bu

For dealing with this problem, as well as anything that's not already packaged, the checkinstall utility is very helpful. It intercepts filesystem calls and builds deb/rpm/tgz packages that you install with your distro's package manager. It's been packaged in Debian for a long time. Highly recommended.