Ack, my bad. I meant OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). Same should probably work on any Linux distro with standard build tools installed.<p>I keep a ~&#x2F;local directory with built-from-source programs in it. That way I don&#x27;t get any conflicts with system-wide package managers.<p>Configure line for ncurses:<p><pre><code>  .&#x2F;configure  --enable-pc-files --with-pkg-config-libdir=$HOME&#x2F;local&#x2F;lib&#x2F;pkgconfig --with-shared --prefix=$HOME&#x2F;local
  make -j8 &amp;&amp; make install
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And for htop, a regular configure worked fine:<p><pre><code>  .&#x2F;configure --prefix=$HOME&#x2F;local
  make -j8 &amp;&amp; make install
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A quick check in my .bashrc (actually .zshrc) prepends $HOME&#x2F;local&#x2F;bin to my $PATH if it exists.