Hey guys
I really hope I can get some help. I've always wanted to learn Linux and this is the first time I'm really going for it.
Anyway, I don't know a thing about how to install software or any other thing for that matter. So I kinda have this problem, I wanted to install an MSN Messenger for Linux. But when I tried to do as it said in the readme file (I tried to run the config file ./configure) and it said something about not finding a real c compiler in $PATH.

I tried to look for Gcc bu then I didn't know what to download and how to install that thing =/

I'm really in a mess here and I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out a bit =)

Thank you very much

when you first installed your linux do you remember what options you ticked? anyways you needed to have ticked the development options to have gcc

gcc is usually in /usr/bin/gcc

What program are you trying to install ? Most likely during your initial install of Suse it didn't install the gcc compiler or other compenents to install source based packages.

You could probably install by RPM though, have you checked out and seen if the program your installing comes in RPM based install ?

Let us know, try to provide as much details so we might be able to help you fix this faster..

Yeah, SuSE does not install gcc or any development programs by default. I learned real quick to do a custom install and make sure that everything I wanted was checked.

But, all you have to do is go back to your Install CD's and install them.

Dave

hehe, yeah I try to give as many details as I can but I don't really know what's important.

The program comes in RPM format but I don't really know what that is or what benefits it has =(

How do I go back and install GCC then??

Thanx

You can probably just bring up your software installer (What's it called in SuSE, Yast2?) and find the program named gcc and install it. It will more than likely be in the development section if it's sorted that way.

It will go through and tell you which disc to put it, and take care of dependencies for you that way.

Cool

hey

thanx a lot, seems to work now =)
And I got one more question for you, if your kind enough to help me =)

Um, I got a program for my connection (I have ADSL) so when I turn my computer on, it automatically connects to the login page and logs me into my ADSL connection so I won't have to do it manually.

The program consists of four files, a readme file, a .conf file, a shell script and an executable. In the read it says that I should edit the .conf file and put it in /etc/. Then I should copy the executable to /usr/locan/bin and the shell script to my init.d directory and then I should make a symbolic link in rc#.d, they recommend rc3.d.

I've done all that but it doesn't seem to work. Could I have done something wrong? I put the link in rc3.d as they recommended, maybe it should be in another directory??

Thanx a lot

you don't say what the program is.

check /etc/inittab for the default runlevel and put it in the rc#.d where # is the runlevel id.

niknah: the program is called lf connection keeper, but this doesn't really matter. I want to learn how it works, not just for this program.

Ciccio: thanx, I'll try that see if I can solve it =)

ok
/etc/inittab says

runlevel 3 - multiuser with network
runlevel 5 - multiuser with network and xdm

it says also default runlevel to be 5, but i'm currently using 3 and it seems to work. What's the differene between those two and should I change to runlevel 5, since it's the default runlevel??

Thanx

Ok. if 5 is the default then whenever you boot it will boot in runlevl5. the difference is that 5 starts an X server and 3 doesn't. Try running #runlevel to see what is your current level.
Also try putting that file in /etc/rc.5/ perhaps it would work.