help with installing a program, using ./configure

litestep23 · 02-18-2003, 02:12 AM

hey everyone, i'm very new to linux and i downloaded a small mp3 program, i untared it or whatever you call it, and when i go to the directory and type: ./confgiure, which is what the installation instructions told me to do it comes up with this message:

"Configure: Error: can not find sources in . or ..

any suggestions?

don't laugh, i'm only a newbie

cya,
Ryan

PTBmilo · 02-18-2003, 02:36 AM

That's wierd...

What program is it? can you give a link? Is that the complete error message?

litestep23 · 02-18-2003, 03:12 AM

xmms - its a mp3 player

mhearn · 02-18-2003, 04:13 AM

XMMS should almost certainly come with your distro, and as they practically never update it, you shouldn't need to install from source. Why are you attempting to do that?

ghight · 02-21-2003, 10:47 AM

XMMS recommends installing from source to fix some problems with some of the dependancy packages that got onto the distribution CDs.

I believe your issue is that your source is placed in a directory that a regular user can't see. "untar" into your home directory as a regular user or "su" to root first.

Make sure you get source from XMMS not a secondary sight, then recompile.