Re: Source Code Installation

Greg wrote:
Hi, I'm fairly new to Linux and I was hoping that someone could explain to me, as one would to a complete layman, how I would go about installing a program from the source code.
What I do after 'untarring' or 'unzipping' it, and what I need to do in order to succesfully install the program, and where I will be installing it. I'm running FC 4 on i386.

Generally the instructions are in a file named INSTALL.

Usually it is

$ ./configure

$ make

$ su <password>

# make install

If that does not work for the source you are interested in you will have to specifically ask about that source.

The most common problem I have found is the configure script not looking for Qt where Redhat puts it and it tells you it requires Qt => some number. The solution is this until 3.3 increases.

../configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/

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