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I have Redhat 8.0 installed. Today I downloaded all upgrade files from A Redhat FTP site. (Except the kernel) Since all of the downloads were RPMs I upgraded using the rpm -Uvh <Filemane>.rpm command and everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried to install a few tar files using the command line "tar -xzf <Filename>.tar.gz then the "./configure". (Unless otherwise noted in the INSTALL file) Now the tar files will not load. All of them give the error:
"checking for working makeinfo... missing"
"Looking for gcc... no"
"Looking for cc... no"
"Configure: Error: no acceptable cc found in $Path"
What have I done wrong and what can I do to fix it???
David, i did try it as su and also logged in as root. Same response "command not found". I went ahead and did a system search and found the file in /sbin.
Were you able to compile them beforehand? I installed RedHat once without some of the packages (I was trying to go really light) offered during the install process and had a similar situation. Don't remember exaclty what the package group was called however (perhaps development?). Since the whole thing was so new I just reinstalled and selected those packages. Not that reinstalling is the way to fix things though
It appears we are missing a few development resources on our end... I'm going to try to install the development files off the installation CD and see what happens. I hear the RPMs a notorious for screwing up your dependences... You agree?
Last edited by Gene Barrie; 01-03-2003 at 01:52 AM.
TunedLow, Yes I was able to compile files before this. I just installed RH 8.0 day before yesterday and have been trying to bring it current. It could be that I don't have all the resources installed, so as I said, I'll go back and reinstall them from the installation CD and see what happens.
David, you've been great help. You kind of pushed me in the right direction. What I finally had to do, was to rebuild the RPM database, then force install krb5-libs to satisfy a few dependencies and everything is normal again...
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