[SOLVED] Tarball Installation Problems

[smiffyb2k8]

Hi
Im having trouble with installing tar.gz packages
i know its quite stupid but i'm a total Newbie to linux
i am past ./configure stage and am up to the 'make' stage.
but when i type make install i get an error message saying 'make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.'
I am using a Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic Ubuntu 4.2.3
would appreciate any help!
Cheers!

[devils casper]

Which package are you trying to install?
Are you in same folder, the one where you execute ./configure command?

[smiffyb2k8]

well a number of packages
first of all rar for unix which is confirmed to work with ubuntu and redhat
and im going into the folder where im executing ./configure but as i said when i type 'make install' as su it brings up and error
'make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.'

[devils casper]

Execute ./configure command again. Does configure throw any error? Could you post last 6-7 lines of the output?

[smiffyb2k8]

Here's an example with a program called glights

# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
# ls
aclocal.m4 config.log data Makefile.am NEWS
AUTHORS configure depcomp Makefile.in po
ChangeLog configure.in INSTALL missing README
config.h.in COPYING install-sh mkinstalldirs src

[devils casper]

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

This is an error message.
Execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Execute ./configure command again.

[smiffyb2k8]

ok ive done that now im getting this message lol:

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PACKAGE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0, libglade-2.0) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'libglade-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PACKAGE_CFLAGS
and PACKAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

and then after that i type make and i get that old message again:
# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

im really confused :S

[devils casper]

Execute this

sudo apt-get install libglade2-0 libglade2-dev

[smiffyb2k8]

you are now my hero!
thanks for all your help!
i can now successfully install files at last!!
will recommend you 100% !
cheers!

[L4Linux]

Since you are a new user, i suggest you use synaptic and apt-get to install programs.
apt-get works like this:
To update all your programs at once:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

To install a new program:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Synaptic has a GUI and can do the same things as apt-get.