On Mon, October 15, 2007 9:42 am, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Unless you *really* know what you are doing, you should always > install the package provided by your distribution instead of compiling it > yourself.
thanks, Eric I tried, as far I can tell, an up to date version is not available >> which Makefile, '.am' or '.in' ? > > Did you read the INSTALL file? none provided --- # ls acinclude.m4 config.h.in depcomp ltmain.sh Makefile.in python aclocal.m4 config.sub doc magic missing README ChangeLog configure install-sh MAINT mkinstalldirs src config.guess configure.in LEGAL.NOTICE Makefile.am PORTING --- > It will tell you to do something like: > > > ./configure > make sudo make install OK, that was the magic word, 'configure', THANKS compiled/installed, thanks ! > If you don't compile packages from source regularly you will almost > certainly be missing required build tools or dependancies. >> # whereis file >> file: /usr/bin/file /usr/local/bin/file > You have separate 'file' executables in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin. > This will usually result in confusion. yes, but both were same version HOWEVER, now, they're NO LONGER same: if I copy the (new) from /usr/local/bin/file to /usr/bin/file am I likely to cause problems...? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
