Re: Complete Newbie desperately seeking help...

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Mike> As root, I ran "tar -zxvf automake-1.4.tar.gz".  I
Mike> then went into the directory that was created, ran
Mike> ./configure, make and then make install.

Mike> When I checked the version, however, I found that I
Mike> still had automake 1.3 installed.

By default configure will put automake in /usr/local.
You probably don't have /usr/local/bin in your path.
Or, if you do, you probably didn't rehash ("hash -r" for bash)

Tom