I'm a Debian guy too, but there are times when you need something more recent than Debian supports, or something which is not packaged at all. I've backported

I'm a Debian guy too, but there are times when you need something more recent than Debian supports, or something which is not packaged at all. I've backported packages for myself a few times, and in the other cases I'll install binaries beneath `/opt`, where they'll be out of the way.