Installation problem

[mfghazi]

I've followed the exact procedure for installing a software as described in the NHF (http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html), but couldn't get it.

If the tarball is foo.tar.gz, then I did the following steps:

tar xvzf foo.tar.gz
cd foo
./configure

But after configure, it says that BASH: unknown command etc.

Please help.

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Ghazi, Muhammad Farhan

[CRT_Monkey]

If you want to unzip a tar file and install it, this is what I do.

# tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz <enter>

# ls <enter> (look for newly_created_file)

# cd newly_created_file <enter>

# ls <enter> (look for configure file/s)

(if no config files present , usually there is a README somewhere)
otherwise..

# ./configure <enter>

# make

# make install

after that I usually do an rpm -q or whereis command just to verify that it was intalled in the right place and that the right version is there.

Hope this helps. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[CRT_Monkey]

Oh and its a good idea to install as root. At least I think so. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif