Im very new to linux so I decided to begin my journey with what is touted as one of the most user friendly distros Suse 8.0. After finding my way around the GUI I started making my way through the Shells. However I've run from one problem to the next.
1. After following every tutorial I could find on getting Apache installed I found that one of the most popular commands "Make" and "Make Install" was not even installed with my original distro I had to pull it off one of the cds. (I found that perl and my gcc or c compiler was similar) I found this on accident when I was looking for a basic binary to install. 2. After that I ran into some apxs error. 3. Finally get localhost to display the Apache installed page and try to install Php with any number of directory errors and the like including the apxs error. 4. Skip the crap apache install that I cant even tell whats working with the exception of the localhost page. Try installing MySql which seems to be going okay until I try to get into mysqladmin and get a constant error that the service basically is not running. I've gone through every single help file in the tar.gz's in each app (which is basically a mirror of whats on the site) Is this a problem with my distrobution can anybody send me somewhere (other than the standard apache,php,mysql home pages) I'm pulling my hair out here and am about 2 command lines from dumping linux from the partition and sticking to windows for life. I know and understand the performance possibilities with linux but just getting 3 simple products to work is about more than I can take. Help!!!!! Thanks In advance [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php