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| ahpama 2001-11-08, 2:17 pm |
| Hi,
I am really confused on what flavor of Linux will I be using? Redhat, SLACKWARE (some says it is very easy to use), Suse. Can I ask for your thoughts about this.
thanks.
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| ccieToBe 2001-11-08, 2:38 pm |
| I take it you're starting out with Linux? If that's the case, my recommendation is Mandrake. RedHat would also be a good choice, but you should hold off on Slackware until you're familiar with Linux. | |
| TW2001 2001-11-08, 2:56 pm |
| My advice.
1.Buy Running Linux
2.Obtain RH distro
3.Install-no X
4.Use the book as a companion
5.Chp 11 configures X by then you should be initiated.
6.Install configure X
7.Realize you spend half your life in terminals anyway...
8.Ahh Life is /bin/bash
9.Re-birth!
Ok so its been a very long week for me
(I still mean that stuff though..)
And of course as Suse puts it "have fun!" | |
| ccieToBe 2001-11-08, 3:11 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by TW2001
My advice.
1.Buy Running Linux
2.Obtain RH distro
3.Install-no X
4.Use the book as a companion
5.Chp 11 configures X by then you should be initiated.
6.Install configure X
7.Realize you spend half your life in terminals anyway...
8.Ahh Life is /bin/bash
9.Re-birth!
Ok so its been a very long week for me
(I still mean that stuff though..)
And of course as Suse puts it "have fun!"
Nice plan | |
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| ahpama 2001-11-09, 2:30 am |
| Hi All,
Thanks a lot for your contributions. by the way TW2001 you mentioned about /bin/bash I have a problem . When I untar a package and install it. I am having a problem and somewhat like " bash or shell not found".
Thanks again.
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| ccieToBe 2001-11-09, 8:55 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ahpama
Hi All,
Thanks a lot for your contributions. by the way TW2001 you mentioned about /bin/bash I have a problem . When I untar a package and install it. I am having a problem and somewhat like " bash or shell not found".
Thanks again.
What package(s) are you getting the error message with? | |
| ahpama 2001-11-09, 9:12 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ccieToBe
What package(s) are you getting the error message with?
Hi,
bash and make only. when i try to install this after upacking then issuing the command ./configure i got that error. what is lacking on my RH installation?
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| ccieToBe 2001-11-09, 9:39 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ahpama
Hi,
bash and make only. when i try to install this after upacking then issuing the command ./configure i got that error. what is lacking on my RH installation?
What are you trying to install these apps from? In other words, are you using RPMs, installing from the source, or using some other format.
I'm not completely clear on what's going on with make. Are you getting an error that references make when you attempt installing bash? | |
| dmaftei 2001-11-09, 9:41 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ahpama
Hi,
bash and make only. when i try to install this after upacking then issuing the command ./configure i got that error. what is lacking on my RH installation?
Look at the first line in ./configure. You'll probably see
#! /bin/bash
and you probably don't have bash in /bin (do an ls -l /bin/bash to check). If you don't have bash there, your best bet is to get a bash rpm (try www.rpmfind.com). If the rpm installs bash in a directory other than /bin you can create a link in /bin to wherever bash is:
# cd /bin
# ln -s /thefullpathtobash/bash
That should do it. | |
| ahpama 2001-11-09, 9:48 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ccieToBe
What are you trying to install these apps from? In other words, are you using RPMs, installing from the source, or using some other format.
I'm not completely clear on what's going on with make. Are you getting an error that references make when you attempt installing bash?
I will put it this way. I just have a newly installed RH 7.2 on my PC and I chose the default packages that RH has been selected. I didn't check the "select individual packages". In order for me to unpack or use RPM packages what are the software that I need to install in order for me to run RPM or TARBALL's smoothly. Or what are the utilities should I have to install on my current RH.
Thanks again.
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| ccieToBe 2001-11-09, 10:28 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ahpama
I will put it this way. I just have a newly installed RH 7.2 on my PC and I chose the default packages that RH has been selected. I didn't check the "select individual packages". In order for me to unpack or use RPM packages what are the software that I need to install in order for me to run RPM or TARBALL's smoothly. Or what are the utilities should I have to install on my current RH.
Thanks again.
RedHat should have installed everything you need by default, but just in case, try issuing these commands:
whereis make
whereis bash
whereis tar
whereis gzip
whereis rpm
For each of these commands you should get the full path to each of these executables as output. If you don't, it means these aren't installed and you'll need to do like dmaftei said.
Once you get more experienced with Linux look into compiling apps from the source, but for now you might as well use RPMs to make it easier on yourself.
In most cases, all you need to do to install an rpm is:
rpm -i packagename | |
| TW2001 2001-11-09, 4:43 pm |
| Are you in the directory where you unpacked the archive(tarball)?
bash is the default shell.So.... |
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