You can install is anywhere that you can remember then make a symlink from say /usr/local/bin to the file. So say you installed a program in /usr/local/someDir/bin/someBinary you can simply put a symlink in /usr/local/bin (or somewhere else sensible like /usr/bin /bin etc...) using something like
Code:
ln -s /usr/local/someDir/bin/someBinary /usr/local/bin/someBinary
All your users will now be able to access that program... I think that MTV might have some strange issue with needing environment set to run like this though... again have a look at some supplied documentation...
HTH
Jamie...