Probably a stupid question

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew Jarrett wrote:

> On Thursday 11 September 2008 12:51:05 pm Billie Walsh wrote:
>> Could someone give some simple command to make it work? Please!

First - "aptitude install build-essential"

> Put the files in some directory somewhere (probably in your home folder).
> cd /some/directory/somewhere

Probably best to use /usr/src/  (it's a long time since I did this but I'm
fairly sure that matters for drivers because it looks for headers in the
same place - so also make sure you have headers for your current system
in /usr/src/linux-headers* - you may need to install the linux-headers
package)

> ./configure   (might not be needed)
> sudo make && make install

make && sudo make install

It's only strictly the install step that needs to be sudoed, and the way you
have it, it won't be.
> 
> That's the general idea.  You might get some errors about unresolved
> dependencies -- just post back here and we can figure it out.

Generally make will tell you it's checking for all the things you need, so
when it tells you it's missing "XYZ" or "libXYZ", you need to install
libXYZ-dev (always the -dev version - again, to get the relevant headers).
-- 
derek