How to install bee: make install This will install bee to PREFIX=/usr Change installation prefix: make PREFIX=/usr/local install Be sure to provide installation prefixes during make and make install if you want to first build and later install bee (e.g. make PREFIX=/usr/local && make PREFIX=/usr/local install) Change destination directory for temporary installation and later packaging: make DESTDIR=/path/to/destdir PREFIX=/usr/local install All variables available to change installation directories: PREFIX = /usr EPREFIX = ${PREFIX} SBINDIR = ${EPREFIX}/sbin BINDIR = ${EPREFIX}/bin LIBDIR = ${EPREFIX}/lib LIBEXECDIR = ${EPREFIX}/libexec DATADIR = ${PREFIX}/share MANDIR = ${DATADIR}/man SYSCONFDIR = ${PREFIX}/etc DESTDIR = Cleanup build: e.g. after building with wrong prefixes make clean Rebuild and install with new prefix in destdir: make clean install PREFIX=/usr/local DESTDIR=/tmp/destdir Install latest bee with bee (requires git to be installed): bee init $(bee download git://github.com/bee/bee.git) \ --execute \ --prefix=/usr/local bee update bee