What the hell am I doing wrong??!!??!!!

[Necro Lin]

O.K. so I take a tar.gz file & I:

tar xzvf filename

read the install file which tells me to: ./configure, make, make istall.

./configure runs fine

make: error such and such a file does not exist, such and such a directory does not exist etc.

ummmm.....did I miss a dependancy??? What am I doing wrong?

PLEASE, help I seriously don't know what's going on. I've installed some tarred programs just fine, but others just don't want to install.

[ 17 October 2001: Message edited by: Necro Lin ]

[paulb]

Is the error in the make or ./configure?

[Necro Lin]

When I ./configure everything is fine. It's during the make that the tar.gz files get all messed up. :mad:

[undef]

check if you have the make in your path.

[paulb]

i had this REALLY annoying problem when I tryed to install somthing.. It couldnt find file ./configure and so I finally tried removing the first line (somthing like #!/bin/bash) and it worked

[Necro Lin]

Yeah, make is in my PATH, one of my teachers suggested going into the make file & making sure that the paths in there match my distribution, needless to say I'm in class right now....

That would be so much work though I got error messages that are probably 3 pages long. Darn there must be an easier way to do this. And no don't suggest using winwows...that's too easy

[Necro Lin]

Yo, undef I'll trade you a couple o sweet quadro pounders fo a nice n easy answer how bout dat? :D

[undef]

post your error message right here and we'll help you figure out what's wrong. how's that?