Installing Software

[Paul Gear]

Michael Harold wrote:
> ...
> Hi the List,
> The instructions say 
> "1) Get the tarball" (?!) Did that. 
> "2) copy it to your home directory." Did THAT! 
> "3) tar xfzv anjuta-<version>.tar.gz" 
> (I assume that converts to anjuta-2.4.1 in my case) NOTE: No
> instructions as to where, how or what with that line. 
> "4) Change dir: #cd anjuta-<version> 
> "5) Type #./configure" 
> "6) Type # make" 
> "7) Type # Make install.
> 
> I tried those instructions in terminal. "No such file" was the answer,
> so the whole thing stopped at the first line.
> 
> So just how DO I install the software?
> Obviously I'm new at this so H E L P please? 
> Pretty please? :-) :-)

Whenever you see instructions that involve tarballs, ./configure, and
make, you should first check that there's not a package already:
	apt-cache sarch anjuta

Which shows that a package is already available in Ubuntu.  You can see
more details by running:
	apt-cache show anjuta

You can also see information about the packages at
	http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/anjuta
(where you can substitute "gutsy" for "hardy" or whatever, and
substitute "anjuta" for any package you desire.)

Unless you especially need a version that's not the one provided by
Ubuntu, you should then ignore all the tarball & make stuff and just:
	aptitude install anjuta

This is the main reason i use a Debian-based distribution - the vast
range of available software.  :-)

I also suggest ticking the "Submit statistical information" in System ->
Administration -> Software Sources -> Statistics, so that Ubuntu get
information about the fact that you've installed and used that package.
 This will help them make good decisions about which packages are
important to their users.

Paul
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