[Omega_Shadow]

Yep, it's me agian. Now before you guys run for cover please lend an ear to my problem. I think it may go deeper then my experance with Linux.

I have tried to install the following programs:

kdemultimedia
XMMS-kde (version 3.0)
alsaplayer
glib-2.6.4
bmp-0.9.7
gstreamer-0.8.9

And many others that I have forgotten. I installed them how I thought I was supposed to :

<./configure>
<su>
<make>
<make install>

And none of them gave me errors exept for BMP. The problem is, although The other installs did not give me errors, they are not actualy installed. If they are, I cant find them. Any advice?

[tsunam]

the easiest way to find a program thats installed is to do a (in the console...yes I'm one of those evil people who make you use the console a lot. Learn it, love it, never leave it again )

whereis (program)

ex.

whereis beep-media-player

Output will look like

/usr/bin/beep-media-player /usr/lib/beep-media-player.so <---etc the first one is generally the binary that runs the application.

[Omega_Shadow]

Believe it or not, having a major DOS background, I LOVE that console!! I am so glad you can use it for alot in Linux. Text commands beat GUI commands anyday

Alright. Trying that now. So <whereis> is the equivilent of the <find> command?

[tsunam]

well similar...what whereis actually does, is look in the common binary directories. /usr/bin /usr/sbin etc and see if the file you input is there. So not exactly find but similar..you also have find in linux but i don't seem to get as much use from it.

As always if you want more infomation about a program man and info will give you overload

[Omega_Shadow]

ok, for this Library I need for BMP to install I cant seem to find it, yet it seems to install fine with no errors. I installed it just like the others (first post of this thread) but it does not seem to be taking. I am getting no errors in the console when I configure/make/make install. Anything I could be doing wrong?

The library is glib-2.6.4

[tsunam]

just for curiosity do the following.

etc-update && source /etc/profile

hopefully mandrake has it...it should update the libraries and ask you about updating any config files that changed due to the compiling of stuff you did. (generally safe to say no to them, but up to your discression)

[Omega_Shadow]

[shadow@Omega shadow]$ etc-update && source /etc/profile
bash: etc-update: command not found
[shadow@Omega shadow]$ su
Password:
[root@Omega shadow]# etc-update && source /etc/profile
bash: etc-update: command not found
[root@Omega shadow]#

[tsunam]

meh course not, binary rpm distro...what i get for using a source distro. see if there's a /etc/profile before you just do the source /etc/profile

[Omega_Shadow]

uh, ya. it seems to be some sort of text file with a buch of (c++?) codes in it.

[root@Omega shadow]# source /etc/profile
bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

[tsunam]

hmm odd, that should update the library links...*will have to check to see whats happening* if there's another way to update library links in mandrake

[Omega_Shadow]

ok. So its not just me . Makes me feel better. Thought I was just doing something stupid

So am I installing these programs correctly though? <./configure><su><make><make install>? Or is there another step? Does this make a RPM or something I have to install or is it installed after <make install>?

[tsunam]

That was my next thought...I was wondering if the configure of glib needs

./configure --prefix=/usr

so that way it goes to usr... I'm just wondering if when you went to ./configure it decided to drop it somewhere else..

[tsunam]

where did you download the soruce to? check that area that you have the source in t see if there's something there or watch the output of the make make install and see where its putting the binaries etc.

[Omega_Shadow]

I downloaded the sorce right to my desktop and extracted it to my desktop. I know, a very windows thing to do but I wanted to keep track of everthing.

As for binaries. How do I tell if it's a binary? Linux has some strange file extentions to me.

[tsunam]

basically during the make or make install it'll say stuff like /usr/lib etc druing its process that's the part i'm looking for, where its putting all the files its built.