Compiling and Installation Help (Total Newb)

[beartofear]

Hello everyone.

I want to say I'm a totally new to Linux and in fact I only decided to try out Linux as I'm in biochemistry and a program I want to use it necessitates me having linux (although the benefits of Kubuntu seem very numerous after I installed it and hopefully the necessary compilers).

Anyway, my attempts to install and compile the program are failures to this point. According to the README section, I need to alter the Makefiles to reflect my compiler, and there is a Makefile present Makefile_gnu which is for linux which uses the g77 compiler (which should be installed now).

When I run the Install.com I get the following errors (colored):

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Installing QNIFFT

delphi root directory set to /home/gijoe/Downloads/qnifft
environment variable DELDIR defined


path now set to /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /bin /us r/games

platform: SGI (1) GNU (2) Compaq (3) Lahey Compiler (4) Other (5)?
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make -n -f $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu -f Makefile

compiling utility programs

make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.

compiling main program

make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.
make: $DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `$DELDIR/source/Makefile_gnu'. Stop.

List of compiled programs:
total 0


To run the programs in future place these 2 commands in your log file:
setenv DELDIR /home/gijoe/Downloads/qnifft
set path=( $path /home/gijoe/Downloads/qnifft/bin )


Finished Installing QNIFFT - run the examples, and go

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I guess I'm not sure why it says it cannot find the file if in fact I can see a Makefile_gnu in the directory listed.

Thanks for any help you might have.

[hoodooman]

is there a configure script in the directory where your software is?If so run ./configure,let it run.when its finished type make and hit enter.If it finishes without error you then would become root and type make install.The configure script should find your compiler so you shouldnt need to edit the makefile.