[commandlinefan]

There was a time when I made a point of only installing from source code, and never even using package managers. Although, of course, it wasn't possible to read through all of the source code and make sure that it wasn't doing anything malicious, this felt safer to me. I eventually had to give up, though, because troubleshooting a failed install from source is damned near impossible, and all the documentation you can find on anything assumes that you're using package managers to install everything.