im trying to install xmms player. so i extracted the files to my desktop, open a terminal window, typed ./configure lots of letters strated coming o_O and at the end of it was a line ÿño acceptable cc foundÿ, what does that mean? after that i typed make and it said ÿmake: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.ÿ. what do have to do now?

First, you need to see if you have gcc installed type
whereis gcc

If it was not foung you need to install it.

If it was found, then in your ~/.bashrc file add a line
PATH=$PATHath_to_gcc
path_to_gcc being the full directory path that contains gcc. Then run
source .bashrc

You need to have the compiler (gcc) installed. How to install it is depending on your distribution. You should find some sort of "package" (deb, rpm) and install it. In RedHat/Fedora it's in the "Development Tools" section.

Good luck!
Martin

im using mandrake 9.2

I'm not a Mandrake user. Isn't there an "Add/Remove packages" (or similar) option somewhere in the system settings menus?

Martin

yeah thereis. so i just have to install everything with gcc?

You only need the base gcc package. You don't, for example, need the gcc-g77 package, since that's a Fortran compiler and Fortran is kind of the dinosaur of programming languages.

Martin

ok i installed everything and it says this:

loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for prefix by checking for xmms... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for inline... inline checking for working const... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr//bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr//bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr//bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr//bin/nm -B checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all checking for object suffix... o checking for executable suffix... no checking command to parse /usr//bin/nm -B output... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr//bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for pthread.h... yes checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***

thats then i type ./configure

i installed glib but nothing changed

Last msg was:
GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***
You need to find the GLIB pkg and install it.

Install the glib-dev package.