Installing Gaim - ...no makefile found...
I've been trying to install Gaim for the past couple days since ArkLinux only comes with Kopete, which keeps fucking up my contatct list and crashing every time I try to change it. I read the Install file and the Readme. I right-clicked in the "gaim-0.67" directory and chose "Start Terminal Here". I typed in "./configure". I then typed "make", and it tells me that there are no targets specified and no makefile found. I don't see what exactly I'm doing wrong, I'm not exactly a wizard in Linux but I know a decent amount of DOS so the terminal isn't too tough for me. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
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your "./configure" probobly failed. If you get any errors, you cant continue to the next step.
Post what your ./configure error was. |
sounds like you weren't in super user mode.
once you bring up the terminal, you will have a prompt like: user@xxxx /yyyyyy/gaim-0.67 $ type "su" (no quotes) and then your root password. then type ./configure and see if there are errors |
Hmm, thanks for the tip Brian, I had actually thought of whether I needed to be logged in as root before and wasn't sure how to. It didn't work though, but at least I know how to login as root now :).
Anyways, here's what the terminal is telling me: [arklinux@localhost gaim-0.67]$ su [root@localhost gaim-0.67]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. Obviously, I need a C compiler. What that is, how to install it, and make it work, I do not know. Thanks in advance again for any help. |
you don't need to be root to build the executable, only to do a "make install".
I don't think I've ever seen a linux distro without gcc. What type of package management does ArkLinux Have? Is it apt-get or rpm based? Either way, you'll have to find and install a c/c++ compiler, otherwise you're kinda hosed on the whole thing. |
Arklinux uses APT4RPM.
do (as root): apt-get update apt-get install gcc apt-get install autoconf apt-get install make apt-get install automake that should be enough. There's probobly other dev packges too. Also, *DONT* run ./configure and make as root. Only "make install". Its a security hazard. Because if you run a script as root, and its got something malicious in it, the script has root privelages. |
Thanks for all that, I can tell if fixed something, since after doing ./configure it did a lot more, but then had another error:
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/. I installed GLib 2.0 with no errors, so I'm not exactly sure what's going on now :-\. |
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