Installing slrn

[sacman]

Hi there...
I'm brand new at this so any help would be appreciated...

I'm trying to install slrn...

I've downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted it... But i have no idea what to do from here...

Pardon my ignorance but help would be great..

Thanks

[PLBlaze]

Read the README/INSTALL files first then run configure ; make and when all is OK make install.

[sacman]

This is what i get when i run configure

[root@localhost slrn-0.9.7.4]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

[danrees]

You need to install make, autoconf, gcc (and g++ while you're at it). These will almost certainly be on your distro CDs, or on your distros FTP site.

You will probably find that their is a package for slrn too - would be much easier than compiling from source. Slrn is one of the most frequently used newsreaders AFAIK (I use it :D).