On Freitag 02 Dezember 2005 17:54, Ole T. Vecht wrote: > Fredag 02 december 2005 17:02 skrev Philip Rodrigues: > > Please provide more information. What doesn't work? If the > > configure or make commands produce output, paste (the end of > > it) here. > > Hi Philip. > > as you can see I am new. > > linux:/ # cd .. > linux:/ # cd .. > linux:/ # ./configure > -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory > linux:/ # make install > make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. > linux:/ # > You're either in the wrong directory or you didn't download a source tarball. You have to change to the directory containing the sources after you extracted the package you downloaded. There should be a script called "configure" and a file called "Makefile". Run the command ./configure and then make. If building the application has finished w/o errors become root and run make install. Joerg -- NO to Software Patents - http://www.ffii.org ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.