Re: [LUG] Compiling source code

[Graham <graham.collins6@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:03, David Johnson wrote:
> Keith Abraham wrote:
> 
> >Tried to install Sane 1.0.9 from a tarball.
> >
> >cd'd (as root) to the relevent directory, typed configure
> >and got the reply:
> > bash: configure: command not found.
> >
> >As the configure script file exists in the directory I can only
> >assume the packages required to compile source code aren't
> >on the system.
> >  
> >
> 
> Try doing:
> 
> ./configure
> 
> David.


You might also want to take a look at the files with names in capitals:
INSTALL, README, NEWS, etc. Apart from telling you what it is you are
about to install, they will also tell you how to do it and will
sometimes list dependencies.

Graham.



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