I am trying to install CdCat from the source (the repository version is too old). The instructions include the line:
I understand this is a requirement to include a header in some file (or I might be wrong) but I have no idea which file I should edit. I know it is required as the make instruction throws up an error because it does not know where to look.

Can some kind soul point me in the right direction please?

Thanks, Peter

probably you need to edit a makefile and a missing -I<dir> should be added to somewhere.
probably you need to install libtar.

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Thanks pan64
I am afraid this is too hard for me alone. I found the makefile and the place to insert the include path however I cannot find the path the makefile requires. Libtar is installed but when I enter 'whereis libtar' I get no hits. If I open a directory of the root and search I find libtar files at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules but when I put this path into the makefile the make fails at this include.
If there is no simple solution I will write to the author (but don't expect a response). Perhaps I should just cut my losses.
Thanks for your thoughts, Peter

a number of cistros like debian split off the development files from the run time files so you may have to install those as well probably so thing on the lines of libtar-dev, debian uses a -dev suffix for the dev files yum i think uses -devel, check your package manager

you need to check libtar_listhash.h itself and use the directory. install libtar or libtar-dev if not found.

like @pan64 said, if it is a fully qualified header file, put it in your base dir or sub dir, then in your main file or which ever c file you use just type this in the declarations area.

the quotes tell the compiler to look in the local dir your compiling out of for that header.

but you'd still need the object files or c file with the code to actually run the functions you are calling.

someone correct me if i am wrong on that last part.

note 2:

if it is not C then C++ and most others are pretty much the same?

To further inquire on this matter. Are you trying to install this one?

Hyper's CdCatalog
http://cdcat.sourceforge.net/web/uk/index.html

version 29. Aug 2013 Version 2.3.1

found this on it too,

http://cdcat.sourceforge.net/web/uk/compiling.html

here is a git repo one too

https://github.com/ypid/cdcat

here is a Source code archive
http://www.liberkey.com/apps/src/?app=CdCat

they may provide you with a better/easier means to compile and install it.

Thanks to all who have made suggestions. Unfortunately the compile is too difficult for me.
I have solved my problem by using the windows version and running it under wine. It appears to be OK but I feel that is an inferior solution.
Thanks again, Peter