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Can anyone recommend a good way to install/maintain/remove new software on distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS? (By 'new' I mean versions newer than the ones avai

Can anyone recommend a good way to install/maintain/remove new software on distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS? (By 'new' I mean versions newer than the ones available through apt). I never figured out a maintainable scheme. Some of my packages are in /opt, some are in ~, some in ~/local, and some under GNU stow. And other than GNU stow's half-assed uninstall method, it's always a pain in the neck when I have to remove or upgrade any of these packages.

andrenth 8y ago
One thing that works many times is to download the deb source package from a newer distro and rebuild it in the desired system. If there’s no newer package available you can try to reuse the debian directory from the older source package to build from the newer source. Sometimes this works in the first attempt, but if you need this for a lot of packages, it’ll be a lot of work.
JoshuaRLi 8y ago
Why do you find GNU stow's uninstall method to be half-assed? Just curious.