Well, to be quite honest with you ... you probably don't want to be doing this
anyway.
Now... that might sound "patronizing" and "condescending" but ...
not so fast! If you are using a
distro, then you
most probably do
not want to be doing anything at all except installing the
packages that "momma gives you." Only in this way can you hope to keep your system in-sync with what the distro publisher expects. If you stray from that path, then the quite-brutal reality is that you just might wind up with a computer that is "irretrievably
hosed."