Hello:

I found that my usbdrive had a trash bin on it and several times tried to delete it unsuccessfully. When I did manage it deleted the entire contents of the drive!

I'm going to try and get it back using 'foremost'. However, I'm already having problems trying to install foremost.

I have uncompressed the foremost tar but when I try and install using make, I get the following error:
[root@localhost foremost-1.1]# make
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.1\" -D__UNIX -D__LINUX -DLARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c main.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [main.o] Error 127

I just don't get the problem. The Makefile is there in the folder ...

me!

It sounds like either you haven't installed the gcc compiler or it is not in your path. Try whereis gcc and see if it is installed. Mine is in /usr/bin.

It gives:
gcc: /ur/libexec/gcc

Is it in the wrong place? And what is it? Part of 'make'?

Thanks,

me!

make is an script that basically calls gcc, which is the actual compiler that turns the text files into a binary program, and tells gcc what files and options to include when compiling. So you have to have gcc installed to have the makefile run.

Okay, so now what is the output of echo $PATH. I'm sure pretty sure you won't see /usr/libexec. So what you can do temporarily is type PATH=$PATH:/usr/libexec. If you want it to be permanent, you'll have to add this line to the end of your ~/.bash_profile

what is the output of echo $PATH

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Is gcc in the wrong place? It is an almost fresh install from a commercially produced set :-(

me!

I tried:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/libexec

Nothing changed after I did this. So I did Export PATH=$PATH:/usr/libexec as root. The error message when I did 'make' then changed to:

make: *** No rule to make target 'main.o', neede by foremost. Stop.

Any ideas?

Mystified