Re: [newbie] Application installs

2000-04-02 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
The configure error your getting is in the fact that you don't appear to have gcc (the GNU C Compiler) installed. Look in /usr/bin for gcc and see if it's there, if not, pop in the install CD and install the gcc package. Tom On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > When I tried your command './configu

Re: [newbie] Application installs

2000-04-01 Thread mark willenbring
When I tried your command './configure 2> filename.txt' I got this: configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH otherwise here is what I get when I try to install any tared program. loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking target system typ

Re: [newbie] Application installs

2000-03-31 Thread Anthony Huereca
Ah, those things gave me hell too until I finally installed with every single flipping libary and source code on the Mandrake disk. But for your problems After you get the ./configure error, write down what file it's missing. Then go to rpmfind: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ and do a search o

Re: [newbie] Application installs

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
mark willenbring wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 with the standard > install. I am trying to install Word Perfect, > Abiword, Star Office and Siag. None of these programs > are installing. If I want to do a rpm off of the cd > it installs just fine. When ever I do a ./configure >

[newbie] Application installs

2000-03-31 Thread mark willenbring
I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 with the standard install. I am trying to install Word Perfect, Abiword, Star Office and Siag. None of these programs are installing. If I want to do a rpm off of the cd it installs just fine. When ever I do a ./configure on some of the programs above it runs