installing software

[banewman at supernerd.com.au]

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> 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.
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> I tried those instructions in terminal. "No such file" was the answer,
> so the whole thing stopped at the first line.
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> So just how DO I install the software?
> Obviously I'm new at this so H E L P please? 
> Pretty please? :-) :-)
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> Mike H
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Hi Mike,
I have to agree with Paul - ubuntus' packages are the best first source 
for programs but I wonder if you did substitute 2.4.1 for <version>?
It should be

3) tar xfzv anjuta-2.4.1.tar.gz
4) Change dir: #cd anjuta-2.4.1
then the configure, make, make install
Hope it helps.