Just a small note worthy point to add to Joerg's comment:
Before you run `make install`, become root `sudo su` and type root's password (unless you are in the "sudoers files") Once you are root type `whereis checkinstall` If it is installed it will give you the path to it's man pages any libraries it may contain and also the path to its executable file.
If it is not installed use your packeage manager to install it, I'm not exactly sure what SUSE uses.
Either way, checkinstall will allow you to later remove and/or upgrade any packages you have decided to manually compile. It will add the comiled program into your distribution's list of installed packages. Thus, auto updates and the like will not be lost. As for a program that is being left by the wayside, you may want to seek an alternative application to meet your computing needs.
Regards,
Justin
On 12/5/05, Joerg Stadermann <jstadermann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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