On Monday 11 Dec 2006 09:02, John Wesley wrote:
> On 11/12/06, hantslug@??? <hantslug@???> wrote:
> > Help! I have been trying (for real, this time) to install Sunbird. I
> > have
> > downloaded, unzipped and extracted the tarball and now have all the
> > necessary
> > files in a directory called "sunbird".
> >
> > So I changed directory to sunbird and tried to run ./configure. I also
> > tried
> > to install configure, but could find only configure-debian, which I duly
> > installed with aptitude. I then started trying to run ./configure again.
> >
> > The result is below.(1) What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA
> > Lisi
> >
> > 1.
> > [root@Tux:/home/lisi/Computer_and_Linux_stuff/sunbird]# ./configure
> > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
> Ok so there is isn't a configure script in the Sunbird directory.
>
> Can you do an ls in the directory and post the result?
LICENSE defaults greprefs libfreebl3.so libnssckbi.so
libsoftokn3.chk libxpcom_core.so res updater
README.txt dependentlibs.list icons libmozjs.so libplc4.so
libsoftokn3.so libxpistub.so run-mozilla.sh updates
chrome dictionaries js libnspr4.so libplds4.so
libssl3.so mozilla-xremote-client sunbird xpicleanup
components extensions libfreebl3.chk libnss3.so libsmime3.so
libxpcom.so removed-files sunbird-bin
> The one I just downloaded from here
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html is a
> prebuilt one so there's no need to compile.
Doh. :-( That is the one I downloaded, so it probably doesn't need compiling
at that rate - but how do I run it?
(And how do I tell when a tarball doesn't need compiling? I was under the
obviously erroneous impression that they all did, and have stuck so far to
things I could apt-get.)
TIA - and thanks for your help so far -
Lisi
