Re: guile needed ?????

[Maarten Grachten]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, emim limam wrote:

> hi, i don't think i did the right thing but it didn't
> allow me to copy to usr/share folder and i create a
> folder on my desktop and unzip thru gnuzip and type
> the -configure command it took about 20 minutes to
> configure and  half anhour ago i typed -make commant
> and it is still doing something and i am waiting.
> I am pretty aware that i made a mistake by copying on
> my desktop but i was tired of trying to install this
> last 20 hours as a newbei.

It's not a problem that you copied the guile-installation dir to your
desktop (after the installation is complete, you can delete this
directory). That it takes so long is not so strange either on a 133 MHz
machine, the usual advice for this is to 'take a cup of coffee' or 'read
a book'. But when make is finished you have to do 'make install' which
copies the binaries and hopefully manpage to the right place
in the system (e.g. /usr/local/). To do this you must have root
permissions, so you first have to become root (using the 'su' command) and
then do the 'make install'.

> So next question is could i uninstall it and do it
> from right direction?

No need for that.

Good luck,

Maarten