Neorion Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Hey Im new in the mandrake community. I have been having problems running downloaded fiiles. I have a directory listing the following files ============ acconfig.h config.cache config.sub* docs/ LICENCE src/ CHANGELOG config.guess* configure* INSTALL Makefile.in THANKS confdefs.h config.log configure.in install-sh* README TODO ============ How do I install/run/configure this? Help is greatly appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 cd to the directory, ./configure [enter], make [enter], su[enter] (type root password) and make install. Generally, you find the instructions in the README or INSTALL text files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 In a terminal as a user change into the directory and do; ./configure --help Read the README Read the INSTALL Usually you'd do; ./configure --prefix=/usr on an rpm-based system. You also might want to have a look at the app checkinstall if you plan on doing a lot of source tarball installs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neorion Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) Im getting a warning when i MAKE or make file: [root@localhost skin]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@localhost skin]# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. [root@localhost skin]# Edited March 28, 2004 by Neorion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 if no makefile was found the ./configure failed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neorion Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Ok i just wanted to get the pattern down. I got a file that worked now i did that stuff. Everything finished how do i execute this file I have a .o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) how do i execute this file I have a .o could you try to explain a little better? What's a .o? if you did ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install then the app exec should be in /usr/bin If you just did ./configure then it's in /usr/local/bin look for something related to the name of the app. ooops....then do /usr/bin/name_of_app Edited March 28, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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