help with install

[malder]

I'm pretty new to linux even though I have installed just about every major distribution - I still haven't had much experience installing different software. I currently have JAMD Linux installed, which seems to be a pretty good distro.

I am trying to install an HTML editor (called Screem) I found on Source Forge and the installation instructions seem quite cryptic to me. :confused:

Can anyone give me some direction as to what this means?
There are 5 simple steps to installing Screem:

1) ./configure (or ./autogen.sh for CVS builds)
2) make
3) su
4) make install
5) exit

You can find the software's homepage @ http://www.screem.org

Thanks in advace.

[Ath0s]

./configure - this will run a script that creates some include files for compiling the code. You type this in and watch for errors. If you see any, it means that you don't have one of the required pre-requisites to compile the code. If you have errors, get the required packages, codes, etc., before continuing.

make - This is the comand to actually compile the program. It may take a while based on what you are compiling. If ./configure worked without errors, then this should also work. If it doesn't, go back and look at the output of ./configure to see what went wrong.

su - make yourself super user ... you need this to copy files to the installation point.

make install - this runs a script to install the program to the right point.

If you have problems, it is often necessary to run "make clean" or "make distclean" (without the quotes) to clean-up a previous failed attempt.

Hope this helps ... :)

[mdwatts]

The Compiling Software (http://justlinux.com/nhf/Software/Compiling_Software.html) JL Help File should explain each of those steps.