Geoff, you are cool. It worked but for one Library I have to update. Thanks! -- chgarlie. At 02:47 PM 11/27/2003 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Charles: > >Great to see more people getting into icecast. > >Installing software from a source tarball is easy. And they pretty much >all install the same way. Here's what I do when I download a source >tarball. > >1. Unpack it with tar -zxf <filename> for tar.gz or tgz files, or a >variant on that for bz2 files (this will depend on your version of tar). >You may wish to view the archive first by substituting the x with t, but in >99% of cases, the files will unpack into a subdirectory which will have the >same name as the tarball. > >2. Change into the subdirectory. Note that occasionally these will be >capitalised, so finding it might take a little guessswork. > >3. Read the Readme file. This will usually contain installation >instructions, or will tell you where to read them (possibly in an Install >file). > >4. Most programs use configure and make to compile. If this one does, use >the following commands: > >./configure --help |more > >I always do this in case there's stuff burried away in configure that has >been left out of the documentation. The only real part of interest is the >section near the end which talks about "enable and with options". Have a >quick read through there in case there are items you wish to enable or >disable. In most cases however, you can safely ignore these and in a lot >of cases, there won't be anything there of much interest to the typical >user. > >5. Type ./configure. If you have anyy options you wish to use, put them >on the command line (e.g. ./configure --disable-nls) > >6. Assuming configure ran without errors, type make. This will compile >the program. Then type "make install" to install it (usually in >/usr/local, if you want it somewhere else then use the --prefix option when >running configure). > >Now you should be good to go! > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > >Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! >http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup