Install a package: Manual Install (Mandrake 10.0)
Hello there again,
This is a second thread for my installation problem, this time focusing on how to install a package manually. I try to install Kopete-0.8.4, I found Kopete-0.8.4.tar.gz from the Kopete web site, saved it under Documents/. I read, read, read and finally learned several command lines.:study: Thanks to a previous thread I tried to apply the following (blindly I must admit, thanks for adding explaination): tar xzf kopete-0.8.4.tar.gz cd kopete-0.8.4 ./configure make make install My problem is coming up at the ./configure stage, the answer I get (out of my head sorry for lack of accuracy) is: no acceptable C compiler on $PATH Ahem... :confused: My questions are: What is a C compiler? What went wrong really? What am I doing actually, here? (as in what is to ./configure, to make or to make install ??) :scratch: Please rescue me, if I could install programmes on my machine I would be really happy :) Thanks Kobayashy |
What is a C compiler?
A C compiler is a program that turns human readable code into machine lanquage. When you buy a program such as MS Office they dont give you the source code because they do not want you to see how it was made. They have already compiled the program for you, the problem being that if you wanted to change something you would be unable to because you do not have the source code. RPM packages are also precompiled for you so you don't have to compile yourself. What went wrong really? The answer is simple that you don't have a C compiler installed on your system. There will be one on the Mandrake CD somewhere. Insert the first CD and see if an option comes up to let you add and remove programs. Then find the C compiler and check it for installation. If you cant find it there you will have to download a C copiler RPM from the internet and install manually. What am I doing actually, here? When you run ./configure you are telling the system to check how your computer is set up and what programs are installed that is needed by the one you want to install. make is a special program that basically compiles the program for you. This is where the C compiler is needed. It will optimize the system depending on what ./configure discovered. make install This will install all the currently comiled files all over your system. ie all the library files will be installed in the /lib directories and the execulable (binary) files will be installed in the /bin or /sbin directories. |
Which C Compiler?
Thanks, it is all clear now. :)
I suspect my Mandrake CDs to have a fault, so I wish to download a C compiler from internet and install it. 1- Which C Compiler do you recommend? knowing I have Mandrake 10.0 (if it changes anything) 2- If I need a C Compiler to compile and thus manage to install a programme... How will I be able to install a C Compiler without a C Compiler ? :p (If you know what I'm trying to say here) Thanks for the tips. Kobayashy |
If you have urpmi set up, just do (as root) urpmi gcc and it should take care of installing for you.
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not that easy after all...
ok,
I used Mandrake CD to install developement tools and GCC. Now I run again a ./configure on kopete and: i get this... [kobayashy@localhost kopete-0.8.4]$ ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for -p flag to install... yes checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for cc++... no checking for cl... no checking for FCC... no checking for KCC... no checking for RCC... no checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether g++ accepts -g... no checking dependency style of g++... none checking whether g++ supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... no checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... no checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... no checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check What do I have to do? cause I don' t know what thhat means.... Cheers |
This has been discussed a bit. Try LQ Search for sanity check.
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error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (library qt-mt) not found
Ok, Sanity Check problem is solved, here is the next error message coming up while trying to configure kopete:
[kobayashy@localhost kopete-0.8.4]$ ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for -p flag to install... yes checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking whether g++ supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... no checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-check-new... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-common... yes checking whether g++ supports -fexceptions... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking whether g++ supports -O0... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wl,--no-undefined... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined... yes not using lib directory suffix checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g77... no checking for f77... no checking for xlf... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for f90... no checking for xlf90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for epcf90... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for xlf95... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for gfortran... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc static flag works... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for shl_load... no checking for shl_load in -ldld... no checking for dlopen... no checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for shl_load... (cached) no checking for shl_load in -ldld... (cached) no checking for dlopen... (cached) no checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking if C++ programs can be compiled... yes checking for strlcat... no checking if strlcat needs custom prototype... yes - in libkdefakes checking for strlcpy... no checking if strlcpy needs custom prototype... yes - in libkdefakes checking for main in -lutil... yes checking for main in -lcompat... no checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes checking for socklen_t... socklen_t checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no checking for inet_ntoa... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking sys/bitypes.h usability... yes checking sys/bitypes.h presence... yes checking for sys/bitypes.h... yes checking for poll in -lpoll... no checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h usability... no checking CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h presence... no checking for CoreAudio/CoreAudio.h... no checking if res_init needs -lresolv... yes checking if res_init is available... yes checking for killpg in -lucb... no checking for int... yes checking size of int... 4 checking for short... yes checking size of short... 2 checking for long... yes checking size of long... 4 checking for char *... yes checking size of char *... 4 checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes checking for shl_unload in -ldld... no checking for size_t... yes checking size of size_t... 4 checking for unsigned long... yes checking size of unsigned long... 4 checking sizeof size_t == sizeof unsigned long... yes checking crt_externs.h usability... no checking crt_externs.h presence... no checking for crt_externs.h... no checking for _NSGetEnviron... no checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for libXext... yes checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no checking for libz... -lz checking for libpng... -lpng -lz -lm checking for libjpeg6b... no checking for libjpeg... -ljpeg checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2) (library qt-mt) not found. P lease check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! Wassup now with my Qt, and what is a Qt actually??:confused: Thanks for your help. K. |
Try doing a google search for qt. You'll get to their website, where you can download the source as a tarball. Follow the instructions in the readme file to install it (I'm currently in this process now) :) .
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ok what's wrong now....???
:cry:
That's one week I have Mandrake installed I still didn't install any programme... I found Qt. 3.3, I downloaded it and untared, configured, gmake, make install...and then when I configure kopete it keeps saying I haven't any Qt Lib.... How come? Did I install my lib in the wrong directory? K. |
To avoid this kind of problems you could install a package using the tool "urpmi", take a look in this post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=203939 moutb did an excellent how-to related with this issue. Related with manual install of packages (mainly when you didn't find a rpm package for Mandrake), I'm having the same problem when trying to install a package, despite I have QT installed the ./configure says there Qt not found, I'm looking for a way to get round this. |
installing
try this: sh ./
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Install Problems
I cannot get my Mandrake cd 1,2,or 3 to bring up anything. My bios is in the right order. I tried getting into the iso from a command prompt unsuccessfully. I tried another computer and they all act as if they just ignore the disk.
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