How to install new packages?Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: How to install new packages? started by: sador Posted by sador on Jan. 08 2005,13:56
Hi! I've got a problem. I'm trying to install new games and other applications and... I CANT!!!! When I tryin usin 'configure' file system wrote me something about C compiler. Something like that: " no acceptable C compiler found in PATH'command 'make install' doesn't work. Help!!! What Should I do??? PS I've got Damnsmall 0.7.1 I'm tryin to install EKG comunicator... Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 08 2005,14:11
what game?where did you get the "package"? Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 08 2005,16:06
1. Update to the latest version of DSL - 0.9.2. Many .dsl packages will kill older versions nowadays.2. Try using apt-get first. There in a nice writup of how to enable apt in the documentation area. 3. DSL doesn't have gcc, g++, or make by default. We do, however, have these packaged up nice and neat in the form of gcc1.dsl. It's in the testing area. Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 08 2005,16:24
Even with gcc1.dsl, DSL isn't much of a development system. You're likely to run into many dependency problems.I agree that apt-get would be by far the easiest approach. Posted by sador on Jan. 09 2005,13:13
Does it mean that i can't add new applications? How to add a new compiler? I have no HDD mounted in my comp and system isn't installed on HDD. Maybe it is a reason. How to make partitions for linux? I have HDD with FAT32 partition. Disc is without any files. How do it from dos? Fdisk can't make EXT1 partitions. Help! Which program can do it? Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 09 2005,15:32
You don't need a new compiler if you've installed the gcc extension, but you may need to add development libraries and includes for the specific application you're trying to compile. If there is a configure script included with the source it will most likely tell you what's missing if you are lacking these files. Also check the INSTALL and README files, which may list dependencies for the application. You can probably install these dependencies using apt-get.
I've always relied on a floppy version of Partition Magic (DOS-based), but there should be an application in DSL to do this (cfdisk maybe?). You may need gnu-utils for this (<-- this is me guessing). Posted by Caspar_s on Jan. 09 2005,17:06
Are you wanting to install DSL to the harddrive? Or are you happy running from the cd? If there is nothing on your HDD or space, you can just download the DSL files (from the MyDSL repository) onto your harddrive, and then mount it and run them from there. Adding stuff that isn't in the MyDSL list is beyond me at this stage though. :-/ Posted by idiosynthetic on Feb. 03 2005,11:20
you can boot up dsl then use cfdisk for partitioning, i find this very useful. then mke2fs /dev/hd<partition> to format an ext2 filesystem.
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