Installing Programs

[chris1991]

I have just switched from Windows XP to Fedora 8 which is running on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop. The system is running well but it has come to that time where I am beginning to install programs.

I have read the sticky post on installing programs and I have followed it through and done the ./configure part. After this is dosen't seam to work anymore. When I type in make it says:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I have been trying at this for nearly a day now and would appreciate any help.

Cheers,

Chris

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Did ./configure throw any error?

Which program are you trying to install? Does your machine has internet access? You should install packages through Package Manager, Yum only.

[chris1991]

Looking at the output closely there is a compiler error:

[chris@localhost src]$ cd aqualung-0.9beta8
[chris@localhost aqualung-0.9beta8]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for type of build... release
checking for compilation platform... Linux
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[chris@localhost aqualung-0.9beta8]$

[devils casper]

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

You have to install C Compiler first.
Execute this

su -
yum -y install gcc gcc-c++

Your machine must have internet access.

[chris1991]

Thanks for that code, It downloaded and installed. However it still won't run the make command.

[chris@localhost aqualung-0.9beta8]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for type of build... release
checking for compilation platform... Linux
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash... yes
checking whether stat accepts an empty string... no
checking for floor... no
checking for memset... yes
checking for mkdir... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strrchr... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for strcasestr... yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for gzopen in -lz... no
checking for BZ2_bzopen in -lbz2... no
checking whether GTK+ version >= 2.6... no
configure: error: GTK+ not found or too old (version < 2.6)
[chris@localhost aqualung-0.9beta8]$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
[chris@localhost aqualung-0.9beta8]$

[devils casper]

aqualung-0.9beta8 requires GTK+ version >=2.6 and Fedora 7 doesn't have that version. Either try installing earlier version of aqualung or upgrade Fedora.
I am not using Fedora these days and I dont know if GTK+ version >=2.6 is available for Fedora 7 or not. I hope someone else will chime in soon and suggest you installation procedure.