[Nottingham] BT Broadband / Linux

Andy Etches seadog at mehmoo.com
Mon Mar 20 22:26:57 GMT 2006


> When I do get the time is there somewhere that I can easily find 
> instructions on how to do stuff like configure, make, make install ? 
> Apologies if this question has some of you shaking your heads and 
> wondering if we Newbies know anything at all !! 

generally, untar the source, go into the source directory and do;
./configure
make
(sudo if not root) make install
and it should be installed :D if that fails there is probably a missing 
dependancy, the error message should be enough ;)



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