./configure command

[Dan]

Joao Paulo Pires wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> Thanks for your answer.
> I'm a end user for FC4. The real problem I have is each time I want 
> try some program from CDs ou DVDs from magazines, they advise to 
> install with './configure' and 'make install'. Is there any other 
> possibility?
> TIA, Joao.
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> *de:* Cameron Simpson [cs at zip.com.au]
> *data:* 04-04-2006 20:18:13 10
> *para:* 198mdk at oninet.pt [198mdk at oninet.pt]; For users of Fedora Core 
> releases [fedora-list at redhat.com];
> *assunto:* Re: ./configure command
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> On 04Apr2006 09:50, Joao Paulo Pires <198mdk at oninet.pt 
> </redirect-compormail.asp?to=198mdk at oninet.pt>> wrote:
> | Hi all,
> | I cannot configure VLC because I have not C compiler.
> | Wich program(s) should I get in order to configure any program?
> | Best regards, Joao.
>
> Try 'yum install gcc' as root, if you have a decent net connection.
> It will tell you how much (and what) it wants to download and install.
> You will probably also need various -devel packages.
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au 
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> - Rico the Masher, bpheintz at ucsvax.ucs.umass.edu 
> </redirect-compormail.asp?to=bpheintz at ucsvax.ucs.umass.edu> 
They shouldn't advise to install with that method for FC4/5. Use yum, 
rpm, pirut, pup, yumex; they all work with RPMs and yum/frontends work 
with RPM repositories. Yum will use core, updates and extras by default. 
The fourth repository I mainly use is livna:
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm
Then yum will be able to install anything in that repository (packages 
redhat cannot distribute).
-Dan