Q: I really should have read some documents before diving in, but here I am with a fresh install Mandrake and im completely lost. im trying to install but cannot figure out xchat. I know it should probably be included, but the second CD when I got burned think it was bad, so I had to skip during installation. How to install xchat from the file xchat.org? I download it i cannot find. I need to install it by typing in the console stuff? Answer quickly before I go nuts.
Re:"ld" is part of the bin-utils package, though I'm not certain Mandrake calls it that exactly. But you're making this so much harder than it should be. Take people's advice and learn to use rpm or apt-rpm.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
ok i extracted the tar or whatever but when i do ./configure it says "no acceptable ld found in $path". any idea whats wrong?
yeah, mandrake's default install doesn't install compilers. You need all the compiling tools for that I think.
Re:extracted the tar
maybe this is the problem
Re:rpmfind.net should help you find an xchat rpm for Mandrake. Use that.
man rpm for more information.
Re:Why are you wasting your time ? Log in as root and 'apt-get dist-update' is all you need to type.
Here's a link to the apt rpm for Mandrake.
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/
Re:ok i extracted the tar or whatever but when i do ./configure it says "no acceptable ld found in $path". any idea whats wrong?
Re:keeps saying access denied when i try to save it to my desktop folder.
Re:i cant find the file…
Re:find the file first, then type:
tar xzvf xchat-1.8.10.tar.gz
cd xchat-1.8.10
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
su
enter root password
make install
exit
cd ..
rm -rf xchat-1.8.10
cd ~
xchat
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