how to find the installation comments from the terminal , when they are lost?
 

Dear all,
I installed some programs and during the installation there comes thousands of error message and warning, but they are just lost as the terminal window cannot accommodate them.
But I need to recover the messages as they contain some information and I have to resolve the problem.
Can anyone tell me how to recover the messages?

Thank you very much for your time and attention.

Redirect the output to a file. Assuming you're using Bash for your shell --> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-gui...IO-REDIRECTION

& ./install > output_ns 2>&1

now check output_ns, it stored approximately 25000 lines for you to check ;)

Try something like

tail - 200 output > output1

to get that last 200 lines into a more workable file.

How exactly were you installing the software. Did you use a package manager? Compile it yourself? or what? Knowing that may help you get those pesky error messages again.
cheers,
jdk

Thanks to all who read the questions and cared to reply with such patience.
I was installing ns-allinone-2.28 , and I saved the comments in output_ns file for troubleshooting.
I don't have any idea about how to compile, or even what is compiling :(
I just typed ./install , that's it.

Thank you once again for being so helpful.

And did that work?
jdk