If you want to install such a package into its own prefix (not directly to /) the convention is typically to use /opt/$SOFTWARENAME. So one would have bin,lib e

If you want to install such a package into its own prefix (not directly to /) the convention is typically to use /opt/$SOFTWARENAME. So one would have bin,lib etc under that directory. If the software is not designed to be relocatable like this, one may have to set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc so that it can find its executables, libraries etc