Can't get things to install on Mandrake 10
 

Hello!

Have been using Mandrake 10.0 for about 2 months, and it is great, BUT have recently tried to install a few things on it, e.g. dillo and xv. I tried to do this by the tar method, typing "tar -zxvpf dillo******.tar.gz" (can't remember full filename) and then ./configure in the hope of getting a makefile. Both have come up with errors,never getting to the makefile stage and I am not sure wether it is my version of linux (installed on my computer on a night 3 years ago by someone else) or it is because I am making some sort of foolish installastion error...

Any ideas?

(p.s. apart from this linux ROCKS)

Here is an explanation of the steps that you have to go through to install from source on Linux:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...ms_from_Source

It is fairly common to get errors during the configure stage because ./configure checks to see if you have all of the other programs that your new program depends on. Please post the output from your ./configure run and we can explain what to do to fix the errors noted by ./configure.

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Steve Stites