Sent from my iPhone On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote: Thank you for your help, so far I just wanted to clarify a couple of the things you said > Are you sure this is a .tar file and not a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2? On my computer it says the name of the file is yasr-0.6.9.tar > The reason I ask is because YASR is a source distribution, and such > files are usually packed as something-x.xx.tar.gz or something- > x.xx.tar.bz2, where something is the name of the application and > x.xx is the version number. If it's just a tar file without the gz > or bz2, you can simply use tar to unpack it with the command you > found. If it's tar.gz, you will need to use xzvf instead of xvf, and > if it's tar.bz2, you will need to use xjvf instead of xvf. Either > way, the YASR source code will be unpacked in a folder called > yasr-0.6.9/ under the folder you are in when you unpack it. At that > point, you can do When I do these commands at the command line first I would type cd yasr-0.6.9 enter Then I would type ./configure enter And then i would type make enter And finally I would type Make install enter I just want to get this right > > cd yasr-0.6.9 > ./configure > make > make install > > and if you have all the proper packages to compile source code, > everything should work properly after editing the config file. I don't know about the packages for building source code either, but I don't think it can hurt to try > Sorry, I don't know what packages come with MacOS for building > source code, so you may end up needing to try to find a precompiled > binary if it exists. > > > HTH, > Kyle > > -- > Jesus you're my life. > I live only to serve You > Each and every day. > --Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
