Hi Kaushik, Mandar, and List: Greetings and thank you for the suggestions when I looked for solutions regarding installation woes of btparse. It seems I am really out of luck as far as installing bibliographic/referencing software in Linux is concerned. I tried sixpack at first, but it had dependency problems, and I could not get perl/Tk module to be installed. Without perl/Tk, sixpack just wouldn't work. Failing that, tried kaspaliste. Installed postgresql (with all its dependencies), then untarred the kaspaliste package, tried to install, and got error messages at ./configure stage. ... lastly, tried the refdb, and this too, didn't work because I just couldn't get btparse installed!
Oh well! I think I should better get back to my faithful, old windows Endnote and be happy with whatever limited features it had and unlimited crashes and what not! Mandar wanted to take a look at the outputs of the "./configure", "make", and "make install" commands when I tried to install btparse. I have not tagged them with this mail. You can find the file at the following location, if you will: http://www.sharemation.com/~arinbasu/btparseproblem.txt Would greatly (and I mean it!) appreciate if you can provide some insights where am I wrong, or what am I wrongly doing! Or, is it just plain quirk? TIA, Arindam Kaushik Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Try doing just make first. > > If there are compile errors the compile will stop and you can see the > errors. > > Also, give kaspaliste a try, and if you handle in bibtex format, try > sixpack. > > -kg > > > On Fri, 14 May 2004, arinbasu wrote: > > > Hi List: > > > > I wanted to install a package titled "refdb" for my > > bibliographic reference management. The refdb program > > dependened on another program titled "btparse", > > apparently a set of perl libraries for handling text in > > bibtex formats. Since btparse did not have rpms, I > > downloaded the tar file btparse.tar.gz and as the > > superuser, issued the commands, in order to install the > > package: > > > > tar -zxvf btparse-0.34.tar.gz > > cd btparse-0.34 > > ./configure > > > > Upto this point, everything went well, since the > > package dependencies were diagnosed and I did not get > > error messages. However, when I subsequently issued the > > command "make && make install", there were a lot of > > text outputs, but the program was not installed. > > > > I use Fedora (Core 1) on a Compaq Presario Laptop with > > 128 MB RAM. So far, things have not been slow or > > anything. But, what did I do wrongly that the program > > did not install? > > > > Would greatly appreciate your inputs. > > > > Kind regards, > > Arindam > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
