On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:18:53 -0400 john disseminated the following: > Thanks for the responses. I would like to install mozilla sunbird and > the updated version of Planner. I am looking for a manual or tutorial to > use.
With packages that come as a tarball, I would rely more on the documentation that comes with the package. In particular, look for files called INSTALL and README (go figure). In the case of the Mozilla browser, IIRC, you just run an 'install' script, similar to how you would do it on that other OS. I'm not aware of any specific tutorials, but you could try google.com/linux. The problem with that approach is that there are such a variety of ways and means of installation when you are dealing with tarballs that one or two tutorials simply wouldn't cover it all, or would be superfluous given the documentation that comes with most such packages. > I have been using mandrake for about a year now and have learned to > do various things as they came up. I guess you might say that i am at > the tarball stage now. I like to study the manuals and try to work it > out for myself. Good for you! It's sometimes nice to be able to run the latest and greatest without always relying on someone to build an RPM, or run something that no one has bothered to make an RPM for, though that's getting rare with people like Charles around ;-) In general, the ./configure, make, make install routine is...well...pretty routine, although as Stephen pointed out, you may want to use this switch with the configure script: '--prefix=/usr', as Mandrake tends to package things this way with its RPM's and it works better if everything is consistent. Many source packages install to some other dir like /usr/local or whatever, and Mandrake may not 'like' that. And hey, if it doesn't work, there's always 'make uninstall' and start over, no? > If I run into problems then I get with list. I think that's your best bet :-) You'll learn more through trial and error (it's fairly uncommon to 'break' anything, unless you try to install some critical system library from source, but it doesn't sound like you are aiming in that direction yet) and bouncing questions off people on the list who've been there before. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:15:55 up 34 days, 17:01, 11 users, load average: 1.68, 1.49, 1.29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Chretien government's decision not to enter the Iraq war is a defining moment in Canada's foreign-policy history. It is now supported, according to a recent CBC poll, by a staggering 79 per cent of the population." -- Globe and Mail, June 3, 2004
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