How do I install on RH? SOMEONE HELP
I have successfully installed RH 8. I have some programs that I want to install but I have no idea how. Is compiling the same thing as installing? How do I do that?
Someone please HELP!! |
What is the name of the app you want to install?
You got a free OS, but you need to buy a good book on Linux. Bert |
The name of the app is XBoard.
I figured that I would be able to find enough resources on the web. |
Is XBoard on the RH cds? If so,mount the cd,navigate to the rpm for XBoard and r-click and choose open with package manager.
If it isnt that,where is it? lynch |
No, it isnt on the CD. It is in /home/tom
That is where the 'box' is. I havent done anything to it since i downloaded it. I just dont know how. I am SOOO new. Please forgive my ignorance but I really want to learn this. I loathe MS Btw - I am using the KDE GUI |
ok, well no one has bothered to ask what the complete filename actually is....so .... what is it?
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and i hope you're aware that xboard is NOT a chess game, it's simply a generic front end to a board game engine.
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The Complete file name is xboard-4.2.6.tar.gz
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and of course there are full installation instructions on the homepage:
http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/FAQ.html#[B.7] |
It is amazing to me that you would expect me to know as much as you do about this stuff, Acid. I have already admitted that I am ignorant in this area. Where EXACTLY do I type the 'oh, so obvious instructions' from the web site?
I am asking for help, not someone to make me feel like an idiot. |
hey hey, calm down bud. i was just looking around the download site and GENUINELY found myself looking at that page. let's not get off to a bad start. Nothing is amazing, and i certainly am not implying anything about what you should know.
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right click on the tar.gz file,select extract, than will unpack the archive, in the same directory as the tar.gz file. click on the xboard directory. there should be a readme, or install.txt file. read that for install instructions. open a terminal / konsole and cd /to/the/directory/of/xboard/ and enter the commmands from the readme. normally it's ./configure, make, su root <password> make install,make clean. but the readme will say exactly.
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Ok, I did as per the instructions on the site. It 'unpacked' the program into /home/tom. However, I get some errors with the configure command and the make and the make install command. It looks like this:
[tom@dhcppc0 tom]$ cd xboard-*/ [tom@dhcppc0 xboard-4.2.6]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME creating cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH [tom@dhcppc0 xboard-4.2.6]$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. [tom@dhcppc0 xboard-4.2.6]$ make install make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop. That is what i get at the end of the Shell - Konsole |
right, you need to install gcc, the c compiler, from your distro cd's. you can still get the rpms instead as someone suggested earlier...
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...p?query=xboard |
looks like you need to install a compiler and/or development packages first. browse around your RH discs or start your fav. package manager (kpackage, gnorpm, etc) look for gcc. (Gnu Compiler Collection).
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What is an rpm? GCC is on one of the RH 8 cds?
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Redhat Package Manager. it's there somewhere.
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I'm having the same problem compiling, but when I try to install the development packages from my RH 8.0 CD, I get:
Package Not Found The following package could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until it's installed. Unlocatable Package: krb5-libs = 1.2.5-6 Required By: krb5devel So, I went to RPMFind.net and found the Red Hat 8.0 RPM: krb5-libs.1.2.5-6 and downloaded it. After it downloaded, I double-clicked it to install, and I was told that I already have a newer version. What am I supposed to do? Thank you, AldebaranDanu |
Just one more thing to try - uninstalling the package, and forcing it back in.
First, run rpm --rebuilddb then try to install it again. If that doesn't work, then do rpm -e krb5-libs and then rpm -i --force krb5-libs.1.2.5-6.rpm |
Thank you for your quick response Bert.
I tried: rpm --rebuilddb And then tried installing it again, no dice, same problem. So then I tried: rpm -e krb5-libs It gave me a list of things that required that RPM to be installed. So finally I tried: rpm -i --force krb5-libs-1.2.5-6.i386.rpm (that was the actual filename, I just kinda forgot earlier) But it seems to have frozen in the console. I pressed Enter, and it did a carriage return, but nothing else seems to be happening. Did I make a major boo boo? Thanks again, AldebaranDanu |
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