installing amap

nandonachi · 12-12-2008, 01:09 AM

1. i downloaded a tar.gz file and unpacked it ran the ./config commands then the install and make install commands, there were huge lists displayed and many componenets were installed successfully but many werent,
2.how do i run the program? theres no icon for the software and how to know where it has been installed
3.what type of executable runs on linux (like in windows- exe)
4.how to view all the installed programs?

i have UBUNTU 8.10

bathory · 12-12-2008, 02:00 AM

2 If you run ./configure without any other options, then the program is installed in /usr/local. To run it use:

Code:

/usr/local/bin/amap

You can add /usr/local/bin in your PATH (if it's not already included), so you can run your program with just "amap"

3 The linux executables usually do not have an extension, except for the various kind of scripts (like shell scripts, perl scripts and so on).

4 Use your package manager to view installed software. This way you cannot see the software installed from source (like you did for amap)

Regards

nandonachi · 12-12-2008, 09:14 AM

thank u very much, another thing i wanted to know was how to uninstall these installed files

bathory · 12-12-2008, 09:31 AM

You can try

Code:

make uninstall

If that doesn't work you should delete the installed files by hand. They are located under /usr/local if you run ./configure without the --prefix option (/usr/local/bin for the binaries, /usr/local/lib for the libraries and so on)