Hi, I am working on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
After an unfortunate experience with the package version of sage, which I installed via apt-get, I decided to install Sage from source. Then, I ran sudo apt-get remove sagemath, but after the removal, I still have a binary in /usr/bin/sage : is it ok to replace it by the binary which I compiled, using a symbolic link ?
If /usr/bin/sage comes from a package install, it should disapear when the package that provides this file is removed. Hence, i bet that this binary comes from a depedency of sagemath, probably sagemath-common since /usr/bin/sage is a shell script hence architecture independent. So, you could let the distro remove that file by removing the trailing dependencies, by running apt-get autoremove.
Regarding your own compiled version of Sage, you should better symlink from /usr/local/bin to keep distribution-related and self-compiled software separated. This is also in the default PATH, so it will work the same, just a little bit cleaner.
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