Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
3. download the source and install from source
option 3 is *always* available, and installation from source is usually
very simple:
1. unpack the package (tar -xvzf)
2. run ./configure
3. make
4. make install
the only thing to worry about is default installation path. Most
packages by default go to /usr/local, but mandrake prefers /usr. This
is solved by giving the 'prefix option' to configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
One of the problems with external software is its dependencies on
additional software or files or libraries. I spent many hours trying to
install from the source of d4x which is a gui download manager but it
gave me some dependency error or another. After some required lib and
tools were installed, it wanted a latest version of something. Finally I
just set it aside and use fresh download in windows for big resumable
downloads. Then the file is transferred by mounting the vfat partition
in linux.
Regards,
Rony.
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