Installing Firefox on DSL...(1)

[caloiro_xl]

Hi guys.

This is clearly a newbie problem...

Downloaded firefox-2.0.tar.gz

#cd /usr/local/mozilla/

#tar -xzvf firefox-2.0.tar.gz

#cd firefox

#./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

...

[caloiro_xl]

Downloaded gtk+-2.9.4.tar.gz

#cd /usr/local/gtk/

#tar -xzvf gtk+-2.9.4.tar.gz

#cd /usr/local/gtk/gtk+-2.9.4

#./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk

Using CC=/usr/bin/tcc produces:

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)... no
checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for native Win32... no
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/tcc
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... no
checking whether /usr/bin/tcc accepts -g... yes
checking for /usr/bin/tcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking dependency style of /usr/bin/tcc... none
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for non-GNU ld... no
configure: error: no acceptable ld found in $PATH

[caloiro_xl]

Downloaded gcc-3.4.6.tar.gz

#cd /usr/local/gcc

#tar -xzvf gcc-3.4.6.tar.gz

#mkdir /usr/local/gcc-obj

#cd /usr/local/gcc-obj

[caloiro_xl]

#/usr/local/gcc/gcc-3.4.6/configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld

[caloiro_xl]

(...)
checking for i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... (cached) :
checking for i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld-windres... no
checking for windres... (cached) windres
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile

[caloiro_xl]

Question No.1 - What else do I need to do in order to set up GCC?!

#cd /usr/local/gtk/gtk+-2.9.4

#./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk

[caloiro_xl]

Using CC=/usr/local/gcc/gcc-3.4.6/gcc produces:

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)... no
checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for native Win32... no
checking for gcc... /usr/local/gcc/gcc-3.4.6
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

[caloiro_xl]

I guess I'm missing some action in order to get gcc properly installed.

From what I understood reading your "How To Install Software in Linux", I'll need to compile the software using the make utility.
Another problem is this:

#make
-bash: make: command not found

Can you help me with this?

Thank you very much in advance.

[caloiro_xl]

I had written all this onto one post....but the server refused to post it...I had to break it up into all these parts...

I'm really sorry...still I wasn't able to post my entire text....I have to mention, it's a bit of a pain to post here...


Are there any rules that forbide long posts, or what?!

Hope you can help me with this situation....