Howzit Folks? As a relative newbie I'd like to know what the best practice/process is for managing the installation of software from source. I often find that there is software available which is not supported by SUSE which is useful to me and hence my enquiry. The key aspects I'm interested in are: 1. Cataloguing this software 2. How do I trial software? 3. How do I update software? 4. How do I uninstall software? Is there software available which will do this or assist in doing it? I'm currently looking at the stow package to see if that will do the trick but it looks like a very manual process. One of the solutions I was considering is building my own RPMs from the source, that way I can manage everything via Yast which has all the tools that I mentioned above and more. What is the learning curve like to learn to build RPMs? I'd appreciate it if you have the time to share your experience. Cheers Bruce