[101745] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat Sucks?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 29 02:02:55 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:52:04 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Lane Lester wrote:
> UNIXMAN said:
> > compiling can be a pain in the butt sometimes, try typing autoconf and
> > automake. For the tar files type tar -xvf to uncompres them.
>
> Hmm, I thought I needed to use tar -xvzf [file].tar.gz, but I don't
> know what the "z" does.
z tells tar to gzip when making an archive,
and to gunzip when unpacking an archive.
>
>
> On a couple of downloads, I got that flock of "can't chown" messages
>
> but it looked like everything was there. I don't think I succeeded in
> getting the things to work, though, because they needed some other
> kind of library or something.
>
> What do "autoconf" and "automake" do?
They are clever tools for creating makefiles. Just install their rpms
and your builds may get closer to completion. If they're not on
the rh CD, they should be on contrib.redhat.com and its mirrors.
If you're missing a library, you could rpm -Uvh *devel*.rpm
from the rh cd. Is overkill, but ok if you have lots of disk.
To see what package contains libgonzo
# ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*.rpm | while read rpm
do
echo ==== $rpm
rpm -qilp $rpm
done >/tmp/allrpms.list
# less /tmp/allrpms.list
and search for libgonzo
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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