Help installing program plz

[lwinux]

Hi i am a pretty new user to linux, i am trying to run a program called car whisperer. the file can be downloaded here trifinite.org - the home of the trifinite.group the readme says to install just type $make #make install but this does nothing and im not sure how to install it. there is a file called makefile which i try to run in terminal but it just gives me all sorts of errors about not being able to find files and directories. i have seen it run and the person simply types ./carwhisperer to run the prgram but i also get no directory or file here as well(probably cause i ahve not installed). any help would be greatly appreciated i am pretty new so it may be something easy to do and i just dont see it. i was able to install some programs using sudo apt-get install (filename) but i havnt found this command to work for this program.

[reed9]

I just gave it a whirl and here is what worked for me. First, you need to download the appropriate build tools and bluez libraries.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential libbluetooth-dev

I personally like to use the checkinstall tool over make install. It creates a .deb package that can be tracked by your package manager.

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

I assume you've already extracted the downloaded tar file? From there, open a terminal and navigate to the right directory.

cd /path/to/carwhisperer-0.2

I read here: bluetooth errors [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums that there is an error in the make file and you need to make a small change.

gedit Makefile

Under the 'install' section, you need to change this line

cp cw_pin.sh /usr/bin/

to this

cp cw_pin.pl /usr/bin/

Then build.

make
sudo checkinstall

Again, you can just use 'make install' if you like.

[lwinux]

Awesom man thank you so much for the detailed reply i got it working. another quick question for you i am also trying to install redfang i followed the same process as this one but i get errors when i use the make command
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@ubuntu:~/Desktop/carwhisperer-0.2/redfang-2.5$ make
cc -c -o fang.o fang.c
fang.c:72: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared here (not in a function)
fang.c: In function ‘printManf’:
fang.c:102: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
make: *** [fang.o] Error 1
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anymore help would be greatly appreciated i will aslo try and find my answer in the forums but so far i have been unsucsesfull oh also i tried to do sudo checkinstall after and it runs through a bunch but i dont think it fully installs because ./fang gives me no path or file response

[reed9]

I would recommend the easy way and use a .deb package built for Ubuntu: Index of /ppa/nubuntu-repo/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/r/redfang/