Re: ./configure
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:40:52 -0500
alex <radsky@ncia.net> wrote:
| I'm have a problem with ./configure in that I sometimes
| get a response like this:
| bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
realy no ./configure ?
1. not all packages have a ./configure, there a 'make' is suffisient.
Read de install instructions before.
2. look at the rights of ./configure if there is one.
|
| Here's my procedure prior to ./configure
|
| 1. Download the tar package to /home/downloads
| 2. cd /home/downloads
| 3. tar -vzxf tarpackage
| 4. ls (to make sure the untarred package is in /home/downloads)
| 5. cd package
| 6. ./configure
|
| With some downloaded tar packages, the procdure works fine but
| with some I get the response that there's no such file or
| directory.
|
See 1-2.
| What am I missing or doing wrong? I've read instructions that
| say to download to a suitable directory? Is /home/downloads a
| 'suitable directory'?
|
yes, it is.
only 'make install' requires to be root.
|
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