Hello *,

I am a newbie and am confused.

I am using Slackware -current.

Say, you download a tarball program in your home directory.

You untar it and create a subdirectory with the relevant files in it.

When you do a , ".configure", "make" or "make install" how do you know
where the files are copied to ?

Are they in the right libraries etc. ? How do I determine if they are ?

Can I now "rm" my subdirectory containing the untar files ?

Also, about permission - a user (km) gets "permission denied" running "mt -f /dv/rmt0 rewind" although the "/bin/mt-st" has a+rwx permission.

Why is this ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.

kgm.

I'll try to answer my questions to the best of my ability so here we go:
When you './configure\make\make install' the stuff you just compiled and installed is probably going to end up somewhere in /usr/local/. Most likely you will have everything you need to run the program because ./configure usually spits out error messages if you're missing something vital.
Yes you can remove those source subdirectories. You might want to hold onto the tarballs however, because if you need to uninstall the program, you untar the tarball and run make uninstall in that directory. A better way to go about all this though is to use checkinstall. checkinstall takes a compiled program and makes a slackpack out of it and installs it. This way the program can be uninstalled with 'removepkg /var/log/packages/package-name' and you don't need to keep the source, the slackpack, or the original tarball around. So after you install checkinstall your series would go './configure\make\checkinstall'. Answer the questions and you're golden.
The permissions thing probably has to do with the permissions of device /dev/rmt0. You'll need to set the permissions of that to the correct settings. At least that's what I think, but I don't do anything with tape drives so it could be something else.

> When you do a , ".configure", "make" or "make install" how do you know where the files are copied to ?

don't do "make install", rather run checkinstall. it will create tgz package for you and install it. then you can easily see the content of the installed package (via /var/log/packages) or eventually remove the package. other than this you can still find out by reading Makefile (but i wouldn't recommend this to a confused linux newbie..)

> Are they in the right libraries etc. ? How do I determine if they are ?

configure and make can assure you.. they are

> Can I now "rm" my subdirectory containing the untar files ?

well, why not. but if you didn't create the package using checkinstall you will lose the option to cleanly uninstall the program (while having the tarballs you can still run make uninstall - and hope it will work..).

> Also, about permission - a user (km) gets "permission denied" running "mt -f /dv/rmt0 rewind" although the "/bin/mt-st" has a+rwx permission.

what does echo $PATH say?

and one more thing: it is better to use ./configure --prefix=/usr instead of just ./configure.. (just my humble opinion)

Thank you.

kgm.

Hello *,

Do you always do "./configure","make", and "make install" on every tarball
you install or does this sequence changes depending on the file ?

How do I get "checkinstall" ?

Please reply.

kgm.

Yes, sometimes it is better adding /usr prefix, cause slackware directory tree isn't always the same as those intended by some programmers.

E.G:
www.pybliographer.org

Sometimes the sequence is different; for example programs done in python usually are built with 'python ./setup.py build' and installed with 'python ./setup.py install'. I've also had experiences with perl programs compiling with different commands. Look at the ReadMe and INSTALL files that should come with the program for instructions.

With SWareT: 'swaret --install checkinstall'
With slapt-get: I'm not really sure but there probably is a way.
You can also download it here.

i *always* do ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && su -v checkinstall

ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-9.1...kinstall-1.5.3

cheers,

-- joe

You can get checkinstall from Slackware 9.1's cd2's extra directory. I am sure you can google for it too.

Helo,

How di I condense printing under slackware (LPRng+apsfilter) ?

Please reply anyone.

kgm.