Re: working with files

[Alan]

Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 20:20, Alan wrote: I have re-run the decompressing command this time without the flies on the end and also I removed the gambas folder.... this time it decompressed the files and installed them into a gambas-1.0.17 directory. I have run the ./configure and that appears to have gone ok. I believe I now need to run Make and/or Make Install, however I think I am doing something wrong.... probably in the way I have typed the command but it does not seem to do anything. Remember that the fundamental UNIX/Linux motto: "No news is good news". Should I be typing these in from within the gambas folder, Yes! I have tried both normal and as root, or should I be doing this thru a 'Run" command??, again no success but could be the formatting of the command that I have wrong. you should go to the Gambas page which documents how to build it:- http://gambas.sourceforge.net/compilation.html and do _exactly_ as it tells you ( cut and paste the commands ) e.g. All the characters in the 'make' and 'make install' commands are lower case. Note that you should probably be using the 'sudo make install' command instead of the 'su -c make install' to install Gambas. sorry that was my fault when typing the email.... I did put the commands in  in lower case (I have remembered that Linux is case sensitive lol) By the way in the Package Manager I cannot find Gambas listed in any of the folders... which is why I downloaded it.... forgot to mention that earlier. here is what I get with typing make install in  konqueror [EMAIL PROTECTED]]# make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop. entered this command as per readme file in Gambas and result same as above. [EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ su -c "make install" Password: make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ Will look at  that site tomorrow Chris thanks. Alan