downloading and compiling from source

2008-03-08 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi I'm new to Linux and bought my machine with ubuntu 7.10 this week. I've been using Mac osx for the last 6 months and so i'm still very much in the learning stages. I've got a lot of stuff to read to teach myself, but having been using Mutt on my Mac i want to get it up and running on my

Re: downloading and compiling from source

2008-03-08 Thread Jamie Griffin
This is great, thanks Todd. I'll look into building my .deb package, certainly sounds like the best way forward, although quite daunting having had a brief look :0) Jamie On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 10:47 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: Jamie Griffin wrote: I'm new to Linux and bought my machine with

Re: downloading and compiling from source

2008-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Mar2008 14:58, Jamie Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Before i attempt it, i wanted to ask for some tips on how best to | download the source and build it myself (presumably using ./configure, | make and make install commands). That works fine. | also, which directory should i compile it