Need help installing a tar file

[jacatone]

I'm running Kubuntu v7.04. I downloaded the current version of "partimage" because the one installed by Adept didn't seem to work. I uncompressed it OK, and the install file said to cd to the file and type ./configure but I don't understand what went wrong. I've copied the Konsole results below:

root@eMax:/home/jacatone/Desktop/Downloads/partimage-0.6.7# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.


Could someone tell me what I need to do here? Thanks.

[Fintan]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

Do you have build-essential installed?

[jacatone]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

Probably not. How do I install it?

[Fintan]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

sudo apt-get install build-essential

or search with adept/synaptic. It is in the repos

[jacatone]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

I installed build-essential and re-ran it, but get the follow error message after ./configure:

root@eMax:/home/jacatone/Desktop/Downloads/partimage-0.6.7# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@eMax:/home/jacatone/Desktop/Downloads/partimage-0.6.7#

What do I do next?

[Fintan]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

I got this from the partimage page:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

That specifies the target as /usr

You might want to try that.

[stealthbanana]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

IIRC partimage requires the partition to be backed up to be unmounted, so I find it is of limited use actually installed on a running system. I much prefer using it via a live cd or USB stick. The one I use is http://www.sysresccd.org/

Also, in the compile. The configure.log, does it say throw up any errors?

[ghillan]

Re: Need help installing a tar file

I installed build-essential and re-ran it, but get the follow error message after ./configure:

root@eMax:/home/jacatone/Desktop/Downloads/partimage-0.6.7# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@eMax:/home/jacatone/Desktop/Downloads/partimage-0.6.7#

What do I do next?

If there is not the makefile i suspect that "./configure" did not everything or wrote the makefile somewhere else. Check if the tar extracted a INSTALL or README file. in some cases i had to "cd" into a "build" or "SRC" directory and "make" there.