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I use these set of commands in Konsole
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
make clean


Make sure you switch to the directory of Kopete. I have to switch to root to use the ./configure command. Do so by typing 'su' followed by your root password.

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Original von Remus

I have to switch to root to use the ./configure command.

WHY?!?!?!?!?

Are you configuring in a directory where you dont have permissions?

Seb, how else would I do it? I'm new to Linux and that has been the only way to do it. When typing just ./configure it yells at me saying I don't have permission.

remus - the method that i use to compile all of my programs is as follows.

i will download the file into a tmp directory in my home.

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seb@shadowfax seb% cd /home/seb/tmp
seb@shadowfax tmp% tar -zxvf kopete-0.7.4.tar.gz
seb@shadowfax tmp% cd kopete-0.7.4

seb@shadowfax kopete-0.7.4% ./configure --prefix=/usr
seb@shadowfax kopete-0.7.4% make
seb@shadowfax kopete-0.7.4% su -c "make install"
Password:
seb@shadowfax kopete-0.7.4%

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as a general rule, it is advisable that you are logged in as a super-user for minimum time only. This is a security reason.

The command,
su -c "make install"

will prompt you for the su password and will then run the command in the quotes. It will then automatically log out from root access.



If you *are* doing all of this under your home directory etc, set the permissions. To do this, the easiest way is to open up konqueror, or a file manager and right click on your folder, and select properties.

In the permissions make sure you have checked the boxes which say "View, Write and Execute" for your user.

Thanks Seb, one more question though... I cannot do the ./configure command.. here is the error I get

./configure --prefix=/usr
./configure: line 1138: config.log: Permission denied

possible that you extracted the file as root???

try deleting it (under root), and re extracting the file as your username.

I did extract the file as my normal user... when looking at the permissions, all of them have read and write access too.