Can someone show me how to install a program (more info inside)?

[nightmare]

Ok, I don't know where else to ask this, but I just started using linux (Ubuntu) and everything has been smooth so far. Now, I want to install MoBlock (I'm trying to learn how to install things). its location is "/home/user/Documents/downloads/MoBlock" and it has a readme, changelog, copying, makefile, MoBlock.c, MoBlock-ipq.sh, MoBlock-nfq.sh, rbt.c.

This is what the makefile says

# To use the old-soon-to-be-deprecated libipq interface
# uncomment the following line and comment the NFQUEUE one,
# then comment the gcc line with netfilter_queue and
# uncomment the following one.

#QUEUE_LIB=LIBIPQ
QUEUE_LIB=NFQUEUE

CFLAGS=-Wall -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math \
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D$(QUEUE_LIB) -L/usr/include/libipq
CC=gcc

all: moblock


moblock: MoBlock.o rbt.o
gcc -o $@ MoBlock.o rbt.o -lnetfilter_queue -lnfnetlink
#gcc -o $@ MoBlock.o rbt.o -lipq
strip $@

moblock-static: MoBlock.o rbt.o
gcc -static -o $@ MoBlock.o rbt.o -lnetfilter_queue -lnfnetlink
#gcc -static -o $@ MoBlock.o rbt.o -lipq
strip $@

clean:
rm -f *.o *~ *# moblock

install:
install -m 755 moblock $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin

.PHONY: clean

I follow the how to guide

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

I get to the "more INSTALL" step and it fails. How would I install this? I've tried for awhile, but I can't figure it out. Tell me if you need any more information. Thanks.

[smolloy]

"more INSTALL", is a command to read a file called "INSTALL", which you don't have. Have a look in the readme file you mentioned, and it will probably have installation instructions.

Judging from that makefile though, I'd guess you need to do this,

make all
sudo make install

That's just a guess.

[nightmare]

The readme states:

Installation & Usage.

Just untar somwhere.
To build MoBlock from sources just do

make

in the directory where you extracted it. If you want to compile using
the old libipq library you must edit the Makefile, on top of it you
will find detailed instructions.

The static version was compiled on Slackware 10.2 with gcc 3.4.5, if you
don't want to install the libnetfilter libraries try it, just rename it
to "moblock".

[smolloy]

And what happens when you type "make" in the directory where you extracted it?

[nightmare]

First, thanks for all the help, I appreciate it.

When I type "make" in the terminal, many errors appear, the most common is "warning, implicit declaration of built in function (followed by a word like "malloc" or "strlen" or "strcpy".

[smolloy]

Since you're using Ubuntu, I found a link for installing using apt-get (which is much easier).

moblock-deb: Debian packages for MoBlock (a PeerGuardian alternative for linux)

There's info at the bottom on what to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and how to update your package list.

This will let you install moblock with a simple command,

sudo apt-get install moblock

[i92guboj]

First, thanks for all the help, I appreciate it.

When I type "make" in the terminal, many errors appear, the most common is "warning, implicit declaration of built in function (followed by a word like "malloc" or "strlen" or "strcpy".

That means that you are missing all the relevant dev stuff, since those header files that you mention are the standard ones. You need to install gcc and glibc to be able to compile programs.

Alternatively, as someone said above, look on the net for a deb pre-compiled package and use that instead. That way, you don't have to compile anything.

[nightmare]

I type in "sudo apt-get install moblock" and "sudo aptitude install moblock" and it goes through and reads package lists, building dependency tree, and reading state information, but then the error comes up "E:Couldn't find package moblock" or "Couldn't find any package whose name or description match moblock". (the moblock file is on my desktop, if that matters) Also, the deb packages for 8.04 Hardy Heron give me a 404 error, and won't connect to a page, so could it be a server problem?

Again, thanks for the help.

[coopstah13]

if you edited your sources.list file as per the previous post, you first have to run

sudo apt-get update

before you can install it