Comments on: Compiling Software From Source Code

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:41:57 +0000

I can only access the internets on my phone at the mo, so can’t check what the issue is. However, I suspect that basket has now switched to using cmake. There should be a file in the directory you made that is named INSTALL or README. Have a look in those and there should be instructions on how to compile using cmake. I’ll have to update this article, as most of the KDE projects have switched to cmake.

By: Parviz

Parviz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:43:09 +0000

Hi,
I downloaded basket-1.81 from this same website. Next, I uncompressed the file, changed into basket-1.81, and typed in the following command:
$ ./configure
The response was:
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I assume that the file that is responsible for configuring is missing.

Thanks for your assistance

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:45:33 +0000

I presume you mean you downloaded it from the link on the page. Once you’ve downloaded it, you need to uncompress the tarball using the tar command, and then cd into the created directory. The configure script should be there. What is the error you are getting?

By: Parviz

Parviz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:20:19 +0000

Hi,
The above article is very nice. I tried to install basket, as downloaded from your website, following the instructions given above, but the configure file was not in the downloaded basket. How can I get it?

Thanks for your assistance

By: Qt giving me a hard time. Could not fine make command

Qt giving me a hard time. Could not fine make command — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:54:59 +0000

[...] The program probably needed to compile a module or plugin in order to run. If there's program that is not available as a 'binary' file e.g. .deb or .rpm you might have to compile the program yourself. This is where you would use commandline. For compilation to work or succeed you need to have the packages required to compile a program already installed before starting. Once you have those, most of the time you would enter the folder with the source code in it and run: ./configure then make and finally make install. Here's a brief overview of compiling: Compiling From Source Code [...]

By: admin

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:48:03 +0000

I’m not sure why you would do that. CentOS is basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux without the branding. It is a complex web of software packages all designed to work closely together. Any advantages you may get from compiling the packages yourself (ie speed and only installing the packages you want), you would lose in time installing, and probably ending up with a non-functioning system.

If you want to compile a distro from source, have a look at gentoo, which walks you through the whole process. I ran gentoo for a few years, and really enjoyed it, but it’s hard work.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:30:17 +0000

I want to compile CentOS from scratch but have no idea what advantages I could reap from doing that as opposed to installing a the standard pre-compiled release.

What can I leave out and what can I keep?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:03:40 +0000

You shouldn’t need to compile firefox from source. What distribution are you using? You should use the distribution’s package manager to install firefox.

By: s14shyam

s14shyam — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:42:49 +0000

This is by far the best article that I came across in the web to help in compiling software, but I just can get things right. Please help… I used the ./configure script to install Firefox, but the result says that there isn´t any such command or file. Please help. I´m damn new to Linux…