On Friday 16 November 2007, Robert Butts wrote: > When extracting gwave, should I extract it to: usr/share/?
No. When you unpack a source tarball, do it in a place you can work on it, not a public place like /usr/share. Usually, you do "./configure" then "make". Then try it where it is. To install it is usually "sudo make install". I didn't check this one, but most by default install in /usr/local .. This means the parts are put in /usr/local/bin , /usr/local/share , or whatever. There are differences of opinion on where applications should be installed. Usually the distribution you are using has made some decisions, and you should stick to that. For Linux, it is most common that packages managed by the package manager go in /usr (meaning /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /use/share .....) and you should install non-managed packages in /usr/local. This is deliberately a different place from the managed packages. A warning on gwave .... It requires guile 1.6. It does not work with guile 1.8. Do "guile --version" to verify that. If you try to use 1.8, the messages it gives are not particularly useful. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
