Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
- download the source and install from source
option 3 is *always* available, and installation from source is usually very simple:
- unpack the package (tar -xvzf)
- run ./configure
- make
- make install
the only thing to worry about is default installation path. Most packages by default go to /usr/local, but mandrake prefers /usr. This is solved by giving the 'prefix option' to configure:
./configure --prefix=/usr
One of the problems with external software is its dependencies on additional software or files or libraries. I spent many hours trying to install from the source of d4x which is a gui download manager but it gave me some dependency error or another. After some required lib and tools were installed, it wanted a latest version of something. Finally I just set it aside and use fresh download in windows for big resumable downloads. Then the file is transferred by mounting the vfat partition in linux.
Regards,
Rony.
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