*** Install Yahoopops on RH9 from source (newbie request)

[sef]

Hi all:

I couldnt make a rpm, compile, etc. I dont know how to do it
I would like to ask if you can help me installing yahoopops on my Red hat 9.
I want to move definatly from Windows and one of the important steps is to move my mail.

I will apreciate a lot this answer!!

Thanks!!!

[Dolda2000]

I couldnt make a rpm, compile, etc. I dont know how to do it :(

How far have you got? If it is a RPM that you downloaded, just install it by double-clicking it in whatever file browser that you're using.
If it's a source tarball (.tar.gz), open up a terminal, cd to the directory where you downloaded it to, and run "tar -xvzf <filename>", where <filename> is the name of the .tar.gz file. The cd into the directory that it created, and run these commands:

./configure
make
su -c "make install"

The last command will ask you to enter your root password in order to do the actual installation.

[sef]

I run de command but ./configure does not work.
Error: no such file or dir

Thanks a lot again for your help

[Dolda2000]

Where did you get the file from? I could take a look at it.

[Dolda2000]

OK, then. cd to the source directory, and then to the "unix" directory. From there, run these:

make
su -c "make install"

Note, that you'll need to configure the program as well. How to do this is documented in the README file in the source directory.

[sef]

Well man.

Perhaps the software is not good...
If U have time we can try more things but if not thanks a lot for your time. I really apreciated.

new error:

make: *** [all] Error

after that I have tried if possible.
su -c "make install", but new error appeared

make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. stop.

[Dolda2000]

make: *** [all] Error

Didn't it say _anything_ else? Could you give me the complete set of commands that you used?

[sef]

I am in /home/.../yahoopops/unix

I typed 'make' and some process begins.

It stops with this:

make[1] *** [WebBrowse.o] Error1
make[1] Leaving directory 'home/.../unix'

make: *** [all] Error2

If I run:

su - c "make install"

make: no rule to make target 'install'. Stop.

Tnaks a lot!!!

[Dolda2000]

I don't think that's all. If you look back a few lines (probably from the last gcc command), you'll see the real error. It's probably some library that you don't have installed.