Help installing programs

[cxr_azy]

everytime i try to enter 'configure' into shell to install a program i get this:



[root@localhost xine-lib-0.9.13]# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

That was with Xine, but i had the same result with Xmms...

aide!

[lakerdonald]

You need to install GCC. Try rpm.pbone.net.

[bryansmith]

Hi cxr_azy,

What distro are you using? Odds are that if you are using one of the more major ones then you have a package management system which will solve all your program installing problems. Let me know what distro you are using and I will help you with your package management (assuming it has a package management system).

Bryan

[cxr_azy]

Mandrake 10.0 , and im gonna try the rpm.phobe.net thing

[bryansmith]

Since you are using Mandrake, I believe your package management system is called urpmi. I have no idea how to use this although there might be a tutorial or post somewhere on this forum about it. If not, try looking for an urpmi tutorial on Google.

Hope that helps,
Bryan

[dylunio]

cxr_azy you should be able to install gcc via urmpi with:

su
[rootpass]
urpmi gcc

For a tutorial on how to settup and use urpmi have a look at this tutorial, the section on urpmi is about halfway down.

dylunio