Word of warning, if you use Linux you can easily break your system like this. Many distros stop you being able to modify the system packages now but that's quit

Word of warning, if you use Linux you can easily break your system like this. Many distros stop you being able to modify the system packages now but that's quite a recent development. You should look into doing user-level installs instead. Don't know about Mac. If you use Windows then you do you. It might break eventually but probably not irrecoverably.