Thank you so much for your help, Anthony, Adam, and Micheal! That was
great! Wow! WHat a rush! And how easy! It's really pretty empowering
for a newbie to compile their first program like that! At least for me
it was. RPM's may be easier, but I really wanted to see how it was
done. Perhaps in a little bit of time I might be able to take a look at
the code and try to hack, customize, and (maybe one day) even contribute
to it. (not that I don't think it's take a lot of learning from here
till then) That's why I wanted to try one program from source. Thanks
a lot, guys. That really was great!
-Paul R
Anthony wrote:
>
> This is one of the most common newbie questions, and one that gave me fits
> before I figured out the "secret".
>
> First off, I suggest rpm's instead of doing it by source. RPM's are just plain
> easier. But if you're stuck on source, or need the source for some reason...
>
> Untar the file. ("tar -xvzf the_program.tar.gz")
> Go into the directory that the above command created (usually "cd the_program")
> Read the readme file in there. It contains more detailed instructions. However
> 99% of the programs follow these procedures:
> Type "./configure" and wait for it to configure
> Type "make" and wait for it to compile
> Type "su" to go to root
> Type "make install" to install the program
> And then your done.
>
> If you get an error during the ./configure stage, it's probally because you
> dont' have the library it needs. You can try searching for it at rpmfind.net,
> and sometimes that'll solve the problem. The easiest way to not get those kind
> of errors is to just install ALL the developmental libraries during
> installation. It'll solve so many headaches in the long run.
>
> > Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling
> > different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to
> > compile and install gaim as my first try.
>
> --
> Anthony
> http://binaryfusion.net
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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