I've ran into a problem while attempting to install a couple different programs. In the FAQ on the install everything goes as planned in terminal until they tell me to type,
"make"
"make install"
The terminal doesnt recognize those commands and thus I cant finish installation.

Im running Fedora Core 2.4... and the programs i was having trouble with were HP Toolbox and tpconfig

Thanks in advance,

Hatter

You need to become root to do a "make install" however if make is not working then you may need to install "automake"


Peace V

Fedora's packaging system is RPM based. You can use the command "rpm -q make" to determine the exact name of the make package. If other other times, the make command worked then you may have the make command, but there was another problem. Are you sure that the error was that the make command wasn't found, or could it have been that the "Makefile" wasn't found. You may simply need to cd to the source directory first. Does the command "which make" return /usr/bin/make? Is /usr/bin in your path as both a regular user and as the root user? Does the file "Makefile" exist. If Makefile doesn't exist, is there a "configure" script in the directory. Often there is a "configure" script that generates a Makefile. Actually, the configure script is generated automatically using the "autoconf" command (using a configure.in setup file), but this is almost always done for you already. I am mentioning it because there have been a couple of times when it wasn't. I believe the the "automake" and "autolib" commands are normally called by autoconf, rather than being normally called manually. They may not be needed if the "configure" script is already generated for you.

One last thing to check is that the partition that the tarball is extracted to, was mounted with the "noexec" option. This may be the case if you are trying to run make in the /tmp directory. Use your home directory for compiling tarballs instead.

The error I get when I type make is the fact that there are no make files it says. There are these two files, "Makefile.am" and "Makefile.in" in the folder.

I did the rpm -q make command and it responded with "make-3.0???" I can get the excat response if you need it. Anyway it didnt help matters any.

Hatter

do a "yum install automake" to make sure that the make command is actually on your system. then, cd to the source directory. run ./configure for kicks. if that doesn't work, become root and then run make && make install.

tpconfig at least requires to call ./configure first before doing "make" and "make install". Did you execute it?

I executed all proper commands before the make command and they all went through. When I type make, it doesnt understand it. Or make install. Ill try a couple other things and post again.

Hatter

try this

./configure
make
make install
make clear

Here is the problem I am specificly having with HP toolbox. The first set of yum commands seem to work. Then I encounter an error loading the config file. After that the make command is impossible.

[root@localhost hplip-0.9.7]# ./configure --prefix=/usr
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 build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
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.

The checked the config.log file which didnt help me at all.

Hatter

You have no compiler installed
I'm not sure about all possible fedora compiler packages and the package management. If I remember right a "yum install gcc-c++" should give you ability to compile c++ files. Next time you install Fedora or another distro you should choose to install the Dev/Developer series of packages.

pls install "gcc"
or
try
./configure --prefix=/usr --nodeps --force

The problem was I didnt have any of the developer packages installed. The HP program works great now. Thanks for all the help.

Now onto installing a NVIDIA driver. Im sure Ill be posting again sometime.

Hatter

What is meant by "going root"??

Type "su" (without quotes) and then enter your root password.