Install Questions

[Wade Smart]

11292005 2141 GMT-5

This is from the INSTALL file:
1. ./configure
2. 'make' to compile
3. Optionally, 'make check'
4. make install
5. you can remove the binaries.

Thats pretty much it.
I have two files titled Makefile.am and Makefile.in. I dont know if that 
helps.

There is a thread running about frustruation with linux, if there is any 
one thing that is totally frustrating is this: installing software.

I installed this on 5.04 and considering I dont know what Im doing, I 
got it running. HOW did I do that?

Thanks for your help Federico.

Wade



federico wrote:

>On Wednesday 30 November 2005 00:03, Wade Smart wrote: 
>Wade Smart escribió:
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>>Please dont think Im stupid, Im just not educated (wink).
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>Nobody is born knowing everything, not humans at least. :-)
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>>When cd to the directory with gruler I run ./configure and that works
>>fine but then when I type make it says:
>>    make: *** No targets specified
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>It is normally like that, but I can't say for sure as I don't 
>use or ever installed gruler from source. 
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>>I typed make gruler but that wasnt it either.
>>Am I supposed to specify a special file or what.
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>As I said above, it is _normally_ just make.
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>Look for a file names INSTALL or README in the sources 
>folder. May be in the program's site there is some info?
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>Otherwise now I am at a loss :-\ sorry.
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>>Wade
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