I have installed squid by compliing it to a ubuntu 11.10 server. The installation seems to be fine as I didn't see error message.

How can I start squid? I've tried several comds but it doesn't work.

/etc/init.d/squid start
service squid start

The installation path is /usr/local/squid/(default)

When I try to inittalise the cache cd first to the file (squid), it tells me squid is not install.

Should I have installed via apt-get instead? However, the version of squid is 2.7. I would like to install a newer version if possible.