hi,
I'm having problems with compiling programs.

Each time i succeed at compiling any program and installing it, it fails to run. when i try to run it, bash just returns 'command not found', though i know i compiled and installed it right. I checked dependencies & the output of ./configure. I also tried installing it in an default directory, but still no go... :s

I use Suse 9 now, before i had redhat and never had such a problem. this is really annoying.

I would be really thankfull to anyone who gives me a hint on what is going on here.

greetz.

Hallo,
perhaps your search path is not defined wll enough. run the command 'whereis (programname)'
and then run the program using the complete path. if it works like that, then just find where your paths are stored and update them.

When you have compiled it, where does the actual executable that you would call to launch the program go? In most cases this would be /usr/local/bin, which should be in your path. If it's not, add it. To check if it's in your path, type echo $PATH and to add it to your path (if it's not there) use export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

If the program defaults to installing elsewhere you can often create a symbolic link to the executable in /usr/local/bin. Or you could simply add that directory to your $PATH too.

If it's a program you're not likely to use every day, just type the full location of the program to launch it: /usr/local/myapplication/myapp or whatever.


Håkan