like the soldiers who write the "just incase letter" to loved ones before going into battle, i write these whiney noobish questions pleeding for help like a spastic half breed of a sheep and a turtle, flopping on it's back pathetically, just before going off to find the answer myself. i suppose the letter just lets me find out what it is i'm trying to find out.<br>
<br>this time....<br><br><br>waaaaah,,, pleep pleep, sob sob.....<br><br>i want to install a tiling window manager.<br><br>i downloaded pretty much all of them using my dad's xp, n burnt em t disk.<br><br>(i really, really want to use a tiling window manager, ... to explore its curves (lack of), its productivity and workflow enhancing and life enhancing qualities. yes, really really want to, oooh, i can taste it so goo~ oh, er...... *ahem*)<br>
<br>i then copied the lot onto my 133 pentium running desktop light linux, with a megre 16 mb ram. a cute little hitachi laptop a friend gave me when my two boxes broke. a blast from the past, 1996/7ish<br><br clear="all">
first i tried dwm, since it proclaims grandly its lightness and simplicity (its only 18k, less than 2000 lines of code if i remember correctly who in the twm & dtwm crowds was claiming what).<br><br>i use the guidance of this page : <a href="http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html">http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html</a><br>
<br>(yes, i have been using linux for 4 years and have yet to successfully complete a source install, the most basic, fundamental, and vital of the transferable* skills. (* not distribution specific) how lame am i, lol. how cushy are linux distros these days, lol.)<br>
<br>and i get stuck on when i type precisely "dot slash configure" ( ./configure )<br><br>it says to me:<br><br>"bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"<br><br>i went back and re-read the readme,<br>
... nothing jumps out as to the solution,<br><br>and i'm left with the very strong impression that there's some secret geek lingo meaning that i'm not yet privy to.<br><br>does the "dot slash" ( ./ ) refer to something else needed there?<br>
<br>or have i been putting things in the "wrong" directory?<br>(makes me wanna try gobo linux with it's unique and inspired restructuing for the filing system hierarchy structure)<br><br>or am i issuing the command when i am in the wrong directory?<br>
<br><br>no, clearly, i need to get told what's the secret geek lingo i'm not aware of and thus am not executing the instructions given correctly,<br><br><br>it's moments like this that make me think.... maybe this is the one. this is the letter i'll send. (my drafts folder, littered with ones just like this, that never made
it to an audience. ... if only i spent more time learning and
resolving and hacking into my machines and less time writing letters i
dont send, then maybe i'd get shit dealt with. lol. ) it's bound to end up being one o the most desperate pleepy incompetent foolish sounding ones that i send. <br> <br>so then i tried ion, the one i've been reading up on the most (wmii and dwm second most), and woe and behold, same same.<br>
<br>bash sez yo bitch wots wit the ./configure mejiggles, there aint no such file nor even a directory of that name nor nature in existence, innit.<br>(or however it was the computer puts it)<br><br>...so this is the letter i'm going to send isnt it. :( oh deary.<br>
<br>but wait, there is hope... perhaps no one will read this one either.... a website shone a glimmer of light, a ray of hope..... in my many googles, i spied....<br><br>"<h2 class="r"><a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35865" class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','2','')">Arch <b>Linux Forums</b> / Xmonad: A brilliant window manager</a></h2>
In many <b>wm</b>, it isn't the default behavior, but you can <b>configure</b> it. <b>...</b> After <b>installing</b> the packages from <b>source</b> it just worked. <b>...</b>"<br><br><br>with those last words ringing in my ear, without even opening the tab it had opened to, without another moments assistance (besides once again pulling up <a href="http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html">http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html</a> to walk me through it again), i step over to the laptop......<br>
<br><br><br><br>...<br>the readme for xmonad throws me in even deeper water (or is it
magma?). whatever it is i dont fully comprehend it. oh well, my
notepad of files i need to add to my "Digit's WM Collection" folder.
haskell compiler now joins lua. oof, it's no small. i gotta lug that
much around in my deli? it's like lard stodge to my lettuce n grapes.<br>
....<br>
<br><br><br><br><br>oh well, here is the result:<br><br>and i get stuck on when i type precisely "dot slash configure" ( ./configure )<br>
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it says to me:<br>
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"bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"<br><br><br><br>.... yep, that is a cut n paste from the first time around with dwm (n might as well have been ion-3 too).<br><br>... ... .... cuntish. now i have to send this. killed in action.<br>
<br>n i know it's gonna make me look foolish for not knowing what's going to be ridiculously simple to someone else.<br><br><b><br>
"bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"</b><br>wot????<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>.<br>