Hi,
I am new to Linux. With OPENSUSE 12.1 (32 bit) installed on my computer, I want to install an application named Dropbox. From its website, I download the tar, but I am not clear the exact procedure on how to install it. I have tried to extract it to /usr/local with ‘su’ privilege. run ./configure, get:
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35c342c2c:/usr/local/nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1 # ./configure
configure: loading site script /usr/share/site/i686-pc-linux-gnu
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… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking dependency style of gcc… gcc3
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep… /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep… /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc… /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld… yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)… /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface… BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works… yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments… 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs… yes
checking whether the shell understands “+=”… yes
checking for /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld option to reload object files… -r
checking for objdump… objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries… pass_all
checking for ar… ar
checking for strip… strip
checking for ranlib… ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object… ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for sys/stat.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… yes
checking for string.h… yes
checking for memory.h… yes
checking for strings.h… yes
checking for inttypes.h… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… yes
checking for dlfcn.h… yes
checking for objdir… .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions… no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC… -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works… yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works… no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o… (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in… no
checking dynamic linker characteristics… GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build static libraries… yes
checking for pkg-config… yes
checking for pkg-config… /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0… yes
checking for NAUTILUS… configure: error: Package requirements (libnautilus-extension >= 2.16.0) were not met:
No package ‘libnautilus-extension’ found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables NAUTILUS_CFLAGS
and NAUTILUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
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It does not generate Makefile. I do not know the reason. Could you tell me why? Thanks.
I do not know the following procedure on dropbox installation either.
cd ./nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1.tar.bz2; ./configure; make; make install;
I think the first tar xjf … command has extract the file. Why it then cd ./nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1.tar.bz2;?
Please give me detail command input. Thanks again.
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Installing Dropbox from source
Download installer source (tar.bz2).
Extract the tar ball like so:
tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1.tar.bz2
In most distributions, the following commands should do the rest:
cd ./nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1.tar.bz2; ./configure; make; make install;
For specific distributions or to configure your installation, see the INSTALL file included with the source package.