noob cant't install programs from source

[noobslacker]

When I installed Slackware i accidentaly didn't installing fluxbox. I tried installing it (among other programs) from source using.

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz
cd untareddirectory
./configure
make
make install
make clean

But when I use

xwmconfig

to change to switch to fluxbox it doesn't show up.

Is there a way I can install it from the slackware CD? If so how?
Have any ideas why none of the other programs I have tried installing don't work?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[The_Outlander]

You should start here first.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sla...questions.html

The fluxbox package can be found on disk1 or dvd under /slackware/xap
alternatively you can download it from here
http://packages.slackware.it/search....&t=1&q=fluxbox

As superuser
#installpkg /path to folder/fluxbox-1.0rc2-i486-1.tgz

or cd to the folder in which fluxbox is located and do;
#pkgtool

install packages in this folder.

or just use the KDE package manager and install from there.

[kern]

using 'make install' is a good way to install random stuff into your filesystem that you usually have no way of geting out again.

I'd always use packages and the 'checkinstall' application, to make packages out of the source tarballs you unextract and build, instead of 'make install' use 'checkinstall -ss'