On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Gerhard Schuck wrote:
> Well compiling from the source is not the first thing I want do try. I'm a
> "normal" user without technical background and usually have no luck with
All GNU programs (well, autoconf) are very easy to install from source. It
is just unpacking the distribution package with "tar xvfz file.tar.gz",
going in to the extracted program directory, and typing:
./configure
make
make install
If everything is OK, you are ready to go after that. If this doesn't work,
it is either not a autoconf package (which is bad thing for developers to
do nowadays), you are missing some required packages, or either the
package you are trying to install or your system is misconfigured/broken
and you can complain either vendor.
(Unfortunately many Linux distributions and packages are broken in a way
or another)
It seems that in distributions the required header files are in some
"devel" packages which I think it is a very bad thing. If Joe User sees a
package named "devel" he won't install since he thinks it is only for
developers. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! Everybody should have gcc AND all header
files required for compiling installed by default, since source
distributions are the standard in Unix/Linux world.
Should "mpg123" be installed only for musician computer users?
