Problem in installing application from tarball in ubuntu 11.10?

Question

Hello... I'm linux newbie. I get error while installing an application from tar file..
when I use ./configure it displays error massage : Your intltool is too old and when try make it displays massage: No target specified..
Please help

Thank you :)

Answer 1

If your inittool is too old, you start Synaptic Package Manager (look under System in you main menu). Then do Reload to get the latest info, then do search for inittool, , then do Update for Inittool.



After you had unpacked the tar archive, was there a ReadMe file? Did you read it? If it was not there, you are supposed to follow the standard set of things to do to install. If you use Synaptic, all this stuff is done for you.



When you do make, you have to either name the program you ar etrying to make, or supply a "makefile", which tells make what to do.

Answer 2

Quit using downloaded files and playing around with terminal commands. Use the distributions own software management program that installs every thing automatically for a user. The program is called synaptic in the admin menu. It will ask for a password and that is your user password. In the search box when the program opens up type in what you are searching for and click on it, check install and the click apply. You should mess with things that you do not know how they work or how to use them.



I don't know how many times I tell new users to quite using terminal commands for some thing that already exist in the software management programs. To many people answer questions telling people to use terminal commands with out ever thing about it being asked by a new user of Linux.

Answer 3

Ubuntu does not deliver with the compilers and libraries mandatory to construct maximum application and that they placed the form headers in separate -dev applications. the two set up the dependencies or use a extra finished distro like Slackware.

Answer 4

You cannot "install" a .tar.gz file or .tar.bz2 file.



.tar.gz files are gzip-compressed tarballs, compressed archives like .zip files. .bz2 files are compressed with bzip2.



You can extract .tar.gz files using command:



tar xzf filename.tar.gz



Similarly you can extract .tar.bz2 files with command:



tar xjf filename.tar.bz2



If you would like to see the files being extracted during unpacking, add v:



tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

Answer 5

its been a while since i have used linux but i don't think ubuntu opens tar balls.