have you installed make?
try in the console

which make

otherwise

search for make in synaptics or type 
sudo apt-get install make


On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:07:24PM -0400, Ian Ring wrote:
> I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff.
> The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that.  
> Now it seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information 
> at the end, no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: 
> creating Makefile"
>
> As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response:
>
> -bash: make: command not found
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
>
> Some of the configure output says:
> "checking for /blah blah blah ... no"
> "checking for /blah blah blah ... no"
> "checking for /blah blah blah ... no"
>
> Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are 
> some "no"'s scattered throughout.
>
> Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user
>
> Ian

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