Help with program instalation

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I have downloaded the xmacro .tar.gz file to my desktop folder but to be quite honest I have no idea how to instal it. I have done the whole “make” and “instal” comand in Ubuntu but I have no idea why I did it and even if it aplies to OpenSUSE. Can somone step me through this install?

Xmacro page: XMacro utility

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Hi
Someone has already built it for 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 since you don’t
advise which release your using :slight_smile:
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=xmacro

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default
up 14:06, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.18, 0.20
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

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Create a directory and untar the files there. From the root of the source directory, make the program.

mkdir $HOME/test
cd $HOME/test
tar xzf xmacro.tar.gz
ls

You might see README in the root of the source directory. (You can see from the output of ls above). Assuming that it is “xmacro”:

cd xmacro
./configure
make
sudo make install

(The “configure” step may not be needed and see the README or whatever other files there).

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what is the “make” command doing in this situation? (this is stricktly an informational question)

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So I ran the one click instal from this page, Software.openSUSE.org and now I need to know how to run it? I don’t have an icon anywhere for it…?

edit: I’m running 11.1

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Hi
You need to either of the three commands from a terminal;

xmacroplay
xmacrorec
xmacrorec2

You could then create launchers? they live in /usr/bin/

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default
up 15:38, 2 users, load average: 0.64, 0.34, 0.27
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

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Hey thanks! I think I got it!

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The make command looks for a file called Makefile in the directory that contains instructions to compile/link/(and other programmatic actions) to generate the necessary executables/(and other files).
Typically, the “configure” command generates a Makefile for the current environment (machine architecture and other installed programs) from a file named Makefile.in

man make

However, you did a “1-Click Install” and that is the quickest and easiest way of installing a program in Linux now-a-days! (Of course, someone needs to provide you with such a link and the corresponding rpm file).