I need another lesson in installing packages that are in the .tar.gz form,

so....


In SlackBuild.org, there is a file I need for Coursera/Google to download a Windows instance of a RDP on my Linux box... they want me to "prove I know how to create a folder in Windows" on my Linux box... the RDP they "insist on using is a program called 'remmina'...this program is available on SlackBuild.org as a tar.gz - ONLY!

and that is where the problem starts...

~/Downloads$

~/Downloads$ dir
~/~/tar -xvf 'package-file-names'.tar.gz ...for each package

~/Downloads$ dir
~/~/Downloads$ 'package-file-names' & 'package-file-names'.tar.gz
#are both present at this point

~/Downloads$ configure 'package-file-names' ...doesn't work
~/Downloads$ make 'package-file-names' ...doesn't work
~/Downloads$ make-install 'package-file-names' ...doesn't work

so... I've downloaded 10 different 'package-file-name'.tar.gz and i can't get any of them to install and have no idea how to do it.

if it were a .tgz then, it would be
#upgradepkg --install-new 'package-file-name' ... right?

but, since 'remmina' comes in a gzipped tar ball, then it has to be
# configure 'package-file-name'
# make 'package-file-name'
# make-install 'package-file-name' ..... but, what if that won't work?

i am so lost ....
odin

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And please note that in order to build a slackware package (.tgz or .txz) of remmina using the SBo buildscript, there are four dependencies listed that needs to be built first. And some of them have dependencies that first must be met, and those dependencies might have dependencies...
But all this is clearly stated on the SBo pages.

.... ok,

ok...
thanks to everyone who responded
i did a little reading & went to SlackBuild.org in the link and tried the advised steps.
when I run
./pyparsing.SlackBuild
I get
rm: cannot remove 'tmp/SBo/package-pyparsing' : Permission denied

so it's a permission issue

the stat on pyparsing.SlackBuild is 0755

do I need to futher change this or is Slack telling me I have a permission issue somewhere else

i assume that the command

./pyparsing.SlackBuild

needs to be run as user or it wouldn't begin with .

any ideas?

Generally speaking, you need to be root to build packages in Slackware.

cheers AB....

when I run as su i get the above (so long as i am doing this right)... any ideas??

i'm sorry....

it's the '#' button, then paste a screenshot inbetween the closing bracket of CODE on the left and the opening bracket of CODE on the right .... right?

lets try it this way ...

lms if this works...

so, here is what I get when I attempt to run

./pyparsing.SlackBuild

from root

ok....

needed to expand the dialog a little ...

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Nope!

1) You type [code].
2) You paste in the output you want to show us.
3) You type [/code].

No hashtags!

Your image is hard to read, but it looks to me as if you are typing your filenames incorrectly. Slackbuild script names always have the form program_name.Slackbuild. That's a dot (.) in there, not a slash (/). The slash is a pathname separator.

I think you need to read up a bit about directories and files, and what a pathname looks like before you try this again.

ok...

so, other than the typo... here is what i get

Did you download the source file? Did you put it in the same folder as the pyparsing.SlackBuild script? As per the Howto-instructions...

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