Installing .tar.gz file

[zmzach]

I've gotten to the ./configure point, and this is what I get on my terminal-

zach@zach:~/Desktop/gtkpod$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

wut b the problem?

[antidrugue]

Is there a reason you want to compile it yourself ?

"gtkpod" is avalaible from the Ubuntu repositories.

You can install it like that :

sudo apt-get install gtkpod

[bryansmith]

Just to build on what antidrugue said, you should check to see if your app is available through apt first - it will make life a lot easier. Use:

apt-cache search <program>

to search for your program. Make sure to do an

apt-get update

first.

Bryan

[aysiu]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

[zmzach]

Actually I have already used apt-get to install the package, but the version that apt-get installs is version 9.2, the oldest version. The source that I'm trying to install is 9.8, which I'm hoping will work better than the version 9.2, which I'm not too satisfied with.

[bryansmith]

Do you have 'build-essential' installed?

Bryan

[zmzach]

Yup, I just installed it, and now I'm getting this:

zach@zach:~/Desktop/gtkpod$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
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... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for pkg-config... ok
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PACKAGE... no
configure: error: *** No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'gthread-2.0' found
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'libglade-2.0' found
No package 'gmodule-2.0' found
No package 'libgpod-1.0' found
See `config.log' for more details.

When I got to type make I get this:

zach@zach:~/Desktop/gtkpod$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Is this just a problem with the package or am I doing something wrong?

[Thrillhouse]

You need the gtk+ package. Try:

sudo apt-get install gtk+

[Thrillhouse]

Also, here is a list of dependencies for gtk+

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.10/dependencies/

[zmzach]

wow, this is getting really frustrating. I typed this:

zach@zach:~$ sudo apt-get install gtk+

and I got this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gtk

It says that it couldn't find gtk, not gtk+, which is weird.