Hi,
I have Fedora 12. I downloaded some software from net and wanted to install them from source. I know how to build and install software, but it doesn't work. I have followed this procedure:
1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install
I have installed all software developement libraries and tools. I myself am Java Developer. Now the problem is that either I am told that their is no make file available or software is not installed properly. Yesterday I built mplayer, it was correctly built, but now I can use it in the original directory in which I built it but can not run it from anywhere. Now either it is not installed in /usr/bin folder or it is but it's path is not set. But help me what should I do. OR point me to the right website url, or give me right software installation procedure.

I will bevery much thankful to you.
Thanks in advance.
Badar

May I ask which package you are trying to build from source? You may need to post the output of ./configure for me to see if there are any dependencies to consider. There usually is.

Thanks for reply,
I am installing:
quicktime4linux-2.0.0-src.tar
vlc-1.1.2.tar
flvplayer
and MPlayer-1.0rc3.tar

I have checked out everything there are no dependencies. But still there are some problems. I have correctly built mplayer but it's not in path. So I cannot call it from anywhere. VLC cannot be built correctly.
Right now I am using net through XP, so I cann't have configure log file to show.
Thanks
Badar

If you want to reinstall mplayer to a real path (say /usr/bin):

This will ensure that it stays in the PATH variable. Oh, and ./configure will tell you if there are any dependencies or not.

Thank you Mr. Kenny
I will try it. I didn't know about --prefix=/usr/bin option.
Thanks again.
Badar

Run make install asw root.

that's "as" root

"--prefix=/usr/bin" is not a good choice. Perhaps Kenny_Straw meant "--prefix=/usr". However this is also not such a good choice since generally that should be reserved for you package manager. I would probably recommend "--prefix=/usr/local", then the executable should end up in /usr/local/bin.

NB. Usually /usr/local will be the default prefix anyway.

If /usr/local/bin is not in your path you can easily add it.
You can check your path with
You can add it with something like
Cheers,

Evo2.

Hi,
Thanks all.
I tried this command:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
and it installed mplayer(I wanted to use it for quicktime mov files).
Now I can run my video files in Linux.
But their is one problem, in some other zip files I don't have configure script, or no make file (when I ran make the system replied their is no make file, but there was) then how can I build them?

Thanks in advance.
Badar

There are lots of possibilities : It can be a binary package. Or a java package :
java -jar <file>.jar ( May be not, if you say there's a Makefile.)


Possible commands and scripts to be run to start building Linux software:

'perl Makefile.PL' , 'perl Build.PL' , 'python setup.py build' ,
# 'python setup.py install', 'cmake ..' , 'scons', './waf', 'jam' , 'ant',
'./install', './autogen.sh', './configure' (or 'sh configure') , 'autoreconf -vfi',
'libtoolize && aclocal && autoheader && automake --add-missing && autoconf',
.. etc.

But : Much easier to answer, when you tell, which software, it is.
Name and version, please.
..

Hi,
Thank you all of you for your responses. I was having a dependencies problem with vlc and quicktimeforlinux software packages. But I have resolved it.
Thank you.
Love God
Love Linux
Badar