On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lee wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > > If INSTALL is a script, what happens if you do: > > > > . ./INSTALL > > > > >Tried that got: ./INSTALL:the command not found > ./ INSTALL line 9: syntax error token '0>' > ./INSTALL line 9: 'o> if you got your source from
Its a fscking text file, its not going to do anything. You *read* INSTALL, you don't execute it. Did you bother reading the aptly named README, which instructs you to then read the INSTALL?? > CVS (and not from a tar.zg) > > I got the source from a downloaded tarball. Am running Mandrake 8.0. > Not too familar with the commands to install a tarball once untarred. > Only success i"ve had in the past was find the INSTALL or /install-sh > package and use ./install-sh -s. Butb that keeps failing because no > input source is specified. Whaa?? I've never seen any instructions for any package anywhere that suggested running a "install-sh". Once again, RTFM. > Tried Lonnie's ./configure > make > make install > After cd to gphoto2-2.0 and that doesn't work either. Which means what exactly? Can you be any more vague? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.