i've read several procedures for installing tgz files, but i recently downloaded a popular FTP client, KBear, [kbear-2.1-slackware9.1-i686-1.tgz], and althougth the tar works fine, it dumps the files in the download directory, creating three subdirs called 'install', 'opt', and 'usr'.

Nowhere could I find a 'configure' shell script. There IS a 'doinst.sh', but it doesn't work, citing permission denied, and when i adjust the permissions, it can't find some dirs.

I would have thouth that a popular application like KBear would have am bullet-proof installation procedure, so I assume I'm doing something real dumb.

Any help would be appreciated.

Id have thought ./configure should work fine. There should be an INSTALL file or a README file in the directory, it might have some extra instructions in that...?

It's a slackware package, hence you must run as root: to install it.

in the 'install' subdir, there is only 'doinst.sh', libkbear.so, libkbear.so.2, and 'slack-desc''.

no readme's or 'configure'

i *am* running as 'root'

thnx

i tried this:



[root@localhost FTP]# installpkg kbear-2.1-slackware9.1-i686-1.tgz
bash: installpkg: command not found

Perhaps it's not in your PATH. Or you don't have pkgtools installed. If you have pkgtools you can also run "pkgtool" as root and use a menu driven package installation.

I downloaded and uncompressed the file. The doinst.sh script seems to assume that KDE is installed in /opt/kde.
In your case, is it there or in /opt/kde3?

jims@matrix:~/downloads/slacktest> cat install/doinst.sh
( cd opt/kde/lib ; rm -rf libkbear.so.2 )
( cd opt/kde/lib ; ln -sf libkbear.so.2.0.0 libkbear.so.2 )
( cd opt/kde/lib ; rm -rf libkbear.so )
( cd opt/kde/lib ; ln -sf libkbear.so.2.0.0 libkbear.so )

There won't be a configure script because the files are precompiled.

I am not familiar with the installation program that you spoke of and am assuming that this script would be run from the root directory after the files are copied to the corresponding directories on you system.

Jesus, did anyone here might have had an thought about this guy maybe NOT having slackware but some other distro?

BINGO -- you got it!

I'm running Redhat -- had no clue that slackware was another distro.

Anyway, I still can't find a graphical ftp client for KDE. KBear has some real bad reviews.

Any suggestions for a KDE ftp client with rpm distr files would be appreciated.

Thanks for all your help. Live & learn!

Hey, try gFTP - it's a gtk app but works fine in KDE. I like it very much.

HTH

I tried KBear, but I hated it's messy interface. I mean, hated. GFTP is great. I use it as my default. If you want to stick with at KDE program, try Kasablanca.