im trying to installed blackbox on redhat 9.0 and im getting this error, could someone guide me ?


[root@localhost blackbox-0.65.0]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
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... missing
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
[root@localhost blackbox-0.65.0]#

what files do i need or wha do i need?

when you installed rh9, what sort of installation did you do?

did you install everything? from within your installation class (ie: workstation or server)

well which ever install you chose you obviously did not install any development tools, esp gcc. two options:

1) only use rpms (blackbox is readily available as an rpm)

2) install gcc and all other required packages. (my vote)

i installed it as a server ...only whats basic for as server.....


install gcc and all other required packages <---- how do i find this files ? from the disk or the add/remove packages>?

all on your distro cd's. jsut use the pacakge managemet tools to install them. see the rute guide in my signature for details about installing rpms.

should i installed the gcc packages only ? because when select the development tools it installs 35/46 packages. i dont want to installs things that i really dont need at the moment ..

just say gcc and it will probably install other essential packages e.g glibc-devel, or at least tell you to install them

its craZY it saids that openssl and krb5-lib are not found on the system and cannot continue..now what

use the balckbox rpm...or better yet use apt

go here:http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/apt/

and dl this to your home dir:[RPM] apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr2.i386.rpm 16-Apr-2003 12:11 853k Binary x86 rpm package

then open an xterm and

#rpm -ivh apt-0.5.5cnc5-fr2.i386.rpm

then run:

#apt-get update
#apt-get install blackbox

follow the prompts. It will resolve all the deps for you and then when you log in choose blackbox from the one menu (I am at my RH8 box and can't get to the 9 one to figure which menu it is but it is one of them on the bottom of the login screen)

good luck

thanks (bignate ) you are the best....its up and running. im having difficulty to configure the menu and i installed some new skins and they dont want to work. it will take some time to fully understand blackbox, but overall everything its fine..

this forum needs more ppl like you.....

Thank you, very much...I like to help when I can but it's also helpful to me b/c there are lots of people here that help me to. So I kind of owe a bit 'o debt to others who may not have heard of an easier way. Apt rules and I hope you have a lot of fun with it

Good Luck with the config. Don't for get to read as much as you can on BB. Also look into bbkeys I believe it is a config program for BB.

Hey bignate....im trying to install the BBconf, but i still need to install the gcc packages...

could i do this? is it the right way?


[root@localhost root]# apt-get install gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binutils glibc-devel glibc-kernheaders
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binutils gcc glibc-devel glibc-kernheaders
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 34.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

That is fine...I am just suprised that BBconf needs gcc to install.

without the gcc files it saids this

[root@localhost bbconf-1.10]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[root@localhost bbconf-1.10]#


is that the files i need ? on my previous post?

i installed the gcc packages and when try to ./configure at the end i get this error

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your ins

anyone? how can i fix this ? im running RH9