Unix

james collins james.collins75 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 21:00:14 EDT 2009


Do I type sudo for all the lines? Or just the make install line?

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On Jul 29, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thus spake james collins:
>> # On my computer it says the name of the file is yasr-0.6.9.tar
>
> In that case, the tar xvf command should work with no trouble.
>
> # When I do these commands at the command line first I would type
> # cd yasr-0.6.9 enter
> # Then I would type
> # ./configure enter
> # And then i would type
> # make enter
> # And finally I would type
> # Make install enter
>
> Pretty much correct, except make in make install should be all  
> lowercase, no capital M. And on most Unix systems, you will actually  
> have to type
>
> sudo make install <enter>
>
> and enter your password when prompted. Not sure if this is the case  
> on MacOS or not, since I never used it, but that's the way it works  
> on most other similar systems. Sorry for the small amount of  
> confusion. I hope I got it right this time.
>
> Kyle
>
> -- 
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> I live only to serve You
> Each and every day.
> --Kyle
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