tar.gz help badly needed
I just downloaded my first ever tar.gz file and thought I knew what i was doing but I don't. I extracted the file gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c.tar.gz to my Programs directory, and then according to the install guide for the program it said to do these three things:
./configure make make install The problem is that ./configure doesn't seem to be a valid bash command for my console. It says: bash: ./configure: No such file or directory I did man ./configure and ./configure --help, but didn't get any results. Can someone tell a newb what he's done wrong? THanx :study: |
You will need to change into the directory that is created when you untar the tarball :)
Then, you can go about your business, first thing should ALWAYS be reading the INSTALL or README files though, not configuring as this would be a clue as to whether you are able to configure or what you actually need to do ;) Cool |
Assuming that your shell is bash (try: echo $SHELL) ...
Are you sure you are in the right directory?? And how about typing errors? |
okay I got it figured out(sort of)
I did this: tar -xzvf gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c cd gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c ./configure make make install make clean exit but then when I typed gtk-gnutella to run the program I got this: 'Never ever run this as root!' ???? what is that all about ??? |
That's programs looking out for you.
You should do as little as possible as root, really. Cool |
just what it says hehe don't run it as root :D so if your in the terminal as the root user, then type "exit" to return to regular user, or type "su username" where username is your user and then run gnutella
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:)
Looks like you are logged in as root. That is not a goo idea, becouse you can mess the system. Add a user and then login as that user and run the prog. To add a user (now you have to be root, becouse you are manipulating with a system) type: useradd username and after that (if it will not propt you automatically) type: passwd username to set a password for the new user. |
mmkay, I did the useradd thing, so now can just restart and login as myself and it should work, right?
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You don't have to restart, this is linux after all ;)
Just logout of root, and then login as the newly created user. Cool |
:D thanx fellas :D
sorry it took me so long to post back, but I got gnutella installed yesterday, and it works fine |
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