Compile software
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Revision as of 19:34, 30 January 2012 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (→See also)
Find the source of your software on the internet - best to use http://www.google.com. Typically, it is a compressed file with an extension like tar.gz or tar.bz2. Use tar bunzip2 or unzip to extract the archive.
For example, download and unpack pingus:
wget http://pingus.seul.org/files/pingus-0.6.0-binary-linux-i386.tar.bz2 bunzip2 pingus-0.6.0-binary-linux-i386.tar.bz2 ls tar xvf pingus-0.6.0-binary-linux-i386.tar cd pingus-0.6.0
Look for a file named README or something similar and read it.
kwrite README
Now, you must run the configuration for the build and build it. You need to be a superuser for this.
su - ./configure && make && make install
TroubleShooting
Most likely the configure script will fail because of missing dependencies to the development packages. No worry, read and follow the hints at configure. You will also find examples there.
