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Installing software in root
#Get the archive (tarball) using wget or some other measure
wget http://downloads/software.tar.gz
tar -zxvf software.tar.gz
cd software
# add the path where you wanna place the files
./configure - -prefix=/home/sukhdeep/softs
make
make install
# running software
/home/sukhdeep/softs/bin/xclip
# Lets add the install software to path
PATH=$PATH:/home/sukhdeep/softs/xclip/bin
export PATH
# Removing last item (path) from the total path archive using sed
export PATH=`echo $PATH | sed 's/:[^:]*$//'`
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