On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:06 am, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > I am just new person in LInux. I have problem when try to > install package ib my Linux Mandrake 9.0 O/S. > > When I type ./configure (as the instruction said) no > respond, it said command is not recognized. > > Is ./configure a script file or a command? If yes where > about it located and how to configure it? >
Well Kurniawan, here's a very short version : ./configure is part of the ultimate techno-way of installing something in linux. It is a file used to configure how a compiler/install-script should handle a source for installation on a particular machine and/or distribution. Usually you have to download a *tarball* - which is a collection of files ( historically : Tape ARchive ), furthermore compressed into a single file (with an extension like .gz or .bz2). To install, you'll have to de-compress the tarball, find the configuration-file and edit it to your liking. (Always read the .README-file first !). Then run the compiler (*make*) and - finally - install the whole kadoodle with *make install*. All this requires that you have installed the *development* package* (it's on your CD-s). BUT, BUT, BUT : If you are a *rookie* -linuxer, keep away from it until you've earned your stripes ! Instead, use the *rpm* - system of installing. Recently, Mandrake added a very useful feature to this system : the *urpmi* way of installing something. It can be run from the command-line as well from a graphical interface. Start with the graphical, if you don't know how to define FTP-sources. This *urpmi* - thing is FAR more efficient and easy then anything in the past (well, maybe apart from Debian's apt-get) : it automatically resolves dependencies, promts you to insert CD-s and so on. Kurniawan, I don't know if you have a graphical interface, but if so, click the Mandrake Control Center, issue your root-password, go to the software-section, define FT-sources and you are in business. HTH Kaj Haulrich.
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