[newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Scotchpie
Hi all, Although being a sole Linux user about a year ago now I had to move back to windoze for work reasons and how quickly we forget. Anyway back now how it has all improved WOW!!! I have a small problem though. I installed last week Mandrake 7.1 and upgraded to 8.0 with a free disk on

Re: [newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Paul
In reply to Scotchpie's words, written Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:18:08 + As an example I am trying to install KOffice 1.1 but when doing a make I get that it cannot find the command g++. I did a whereis and found that G++ is installed and the executable is in /usr/bin so why can it not find it?

[newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Scotchpie
Cheers Paul, no I cannot run g++ nor any of the others. -- Andrew Scotchmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Scotchpie
Did the user's execute bit fall over in all /usr/bin? Can you run that stuff as root? All of the executables in /usr/bin do run when typing in the command, eg: $ mozilla, and up pops the browser. The only problems seem to be with these applications mentioned before which interestingly

Re: [newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Paul
In reply to Scotchpie's words, written Sun, 4 Nov 2001 10:48:02 + Cheers Paul, no I cannot run g++ nor any of the others. Where does g++ point to? What are the permissions? e.g. [paul@tbird paul]$ ls -l /usr/bin/g++ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Jun 18 14:01 /usr/bin/g++ -

Re: [newbie] problem with make

2001-11-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Scotchpie wrote: All of the executables in /usr/bin do run when typing in the command, eg: $ mozilla, and up pops the browser. The only problems seem to be with these applications mentioned before which interestingly have a flashing red background. Even as root I get the same message as I

Re: [newbie] problem with make

2000-06-04 Thread Glyn Millington
First question is Have you installed it? In a terminal typerpm -q -a | less Move up and down the results to find a make rpm. If it's not there, the answer is on your Mandrake CD. When it IS there type rpm -q -R packagename to find out about dependencies. On my system the