Hey Whats up,

I'm new to linux and I'm running SuSe 9.0. I've been having a lot of fun learning a new os but i cant seem to figure out how to install any packages. Everywhere on the net tells me certain ways to install from source but when i type "./configure" in the shell it will tell me "configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH". and when i type " make" or "make install"
it will tell me "bash: make: command not found". This is with every package even the ones that are from SuSe Themselves. Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong and how to install these packages?

Use your favorite web browser and google up a copy of 'Newbies Linux Manual' to get you started on the adventure of a lifetime.

Path: there's a file (/etc/ld.so.conf) which lists the directories bash should search to find executable files, libraries, etc. Use the which command to find gcc, the c compiler (open a terminal and enter the command 'which gcc'). When you have the path to gcc, edit the file named above to add that, then give the command PATH=/usr/bin/gcc, or whatever the path is, then follow that with the command 'export $PATH'.

Exporting the PATH is a temporary solution which lasts only as long as you are logged in. Editing the /etd/ld.so.conf file is permanent. It will be there every time you log in.

Now, with regard to ./configure, make, and make install. When you unpack a tarball, it creates a folder which contains the files it will install or use to make binary files. You must do one of the following for it to work: cd to the folder, or, from the folder you 're in, give the full path to the folder. Same for make and make install.

example: let's say you're in your home directory ~, but the tarball is in /usr/local. Either you cd to /usr/local and give the command ./configure, or you stay in your home directory and give the command /usr/local/.configure. That tells bash where the configure script is (the ./ tells bash that the script is in the current working directory. If you are not in the directory where the configure script is located, then bash gets confused unless you give it the full path to the file).

The same applies to the make and make install commands. Tell bash where they are, and they'll run.

By the way: SuSE is rpm based. To install rpm, use the rpm -i command. The ./configure,make,make install only applies to tarballs (files that end in the file extension .tar.gz or .tgz).

You have to install the development packages. Open YAST up and select, at least, "gcc, g++, make" packages and install them. SuSE personal does not come with those packages. Get them from a Novell's mirror near you.

To learn more about installing programs in Linux, read this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

To learn how to use SuSE's YaST to install packages directly from the net, instead of swaping disks (do this, it makes dependecies problems a breeze), read this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...89#post1087289

Good luck!

because your using suse you can download and install RPM packages.
goto www.rpmfind.net its got lots,

RPMs are easy to install providing you know what to get.
wait till u hit the "dependency hell" then post back, you'l know what i mean when u get there

Thanks man. I'm cool with installing shit now. well at least for now