Make clean;make install gives errors

[ndaka123488]

Hi
Im trying to install Universal PCI
Powered RS-232
Communication Board drivers on
Fedora 15.

I succeeded with the following commands

# cp snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz /temp
# cd /temp
# tar xvfz snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz
# cd /temp/snx
# make clean ; make install

Im in the root account yes. When I make clean;
make install

It gives me errors such as:

make/; -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26/build SubDiRS=/temp/snx/drier modules
make: entering an unknown directory
make ****[driver_install] Error 2

Thanks for any help

[hazel]

You're doing things in the wrong order. First you have to run the configure script:

./configure

This creates all the files that make will use.
Then :

make

. This carries out the actual build.
Finally, become root and type:

make install

.
make clean is used to get rid of compiled files if something has gone wrong, so that you can run make again without interference from your previous run. So obviously you can't use "make install" directly after "make clean" because there's nothing to install; if there was anything, you've got rid of it.

[ndaka123488]

thanks will try that and get back, well wanted to know if there is anyhow i cant perfom the drivers install with add/remove program. is there anything feature like that in Fedora?

[Rubberman]

As Hazel said. In addition, you should build the module as a regular user (not root), but you need to be root to run "make install", which you can do with sudo as the regular user, provided that user has the appropriate sudo privileges.

[ndaka123488]

Im logged in as root, i managed to create a folder and stored my zip file in there.

I extracted the zip file and now i need to install the drivers.

in the same folder I ran the command

./configure

and it displays this:

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

[hazel]

Im logged in as root, i managed to create a folder and stored my zip file in there.

I extracted the zip file and now i need to install the drivers.

in the same folder I ran the command

./configure

and it displays this:

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

OK. 99% of programs install with ./configure, make & make install - but a few do not. Somewhere in the directory you unpacked, you will find a file called README and perhaps a separate one called INSTALL. Read these files carefully. They should tell you exactly what commands you need to use and in what order.

You asked above if there was a Linux equivalent of add/remove programs. Yes, there is: it's called a package manager. The RedHat/Fedora one is called yum. You can use this to install and remove aplications, but proprietary hardware drivers usually have to be installed by hand.