On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:08 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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...?
./configure --help usually ./configure --prefix=/ James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
