Programs Installed

[JCrou82]

How Do I know wether programs were installed properly and in the right directories. I have attempeted ./configure and make for two different programs and I can't seem to figure out where they got installed and wether they are running properly or not. Can someone please help. Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

Typically, it takes three steps to install software from source:

configure
make
make install

Did you perform the third step?

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[ady2k]

./configure and make ran smoothly with error.That meant you compiled the program from source code successfully.The next step after 'configure' and 'make' continue 'make install'.
From make install, that will show u which directory the binary program will locate it.You also can read from README and INSTALL after untar the source code program.
Good Luck....

 

[ady2k]

'configure' and 'make' ran smoothly without any error.That meant you compiled the program from source code successfully.The next step after 'configure' and 'make' continue with 'make install'.
From 'make install', that will show u which directory the binary program will locate it.You also can find out README and INSTALL after untar the source code program.
Good Luck....

 

[JCrou82]

I ran all three steps and I'm pretty sure I see .h files within the directory where the tar file was downloaded to. As far as I understand it, programs only run in the /usr/bin directory or /usr/lib directory. Can I actually Run my programs from /home/user/Install_Files/programdir?

thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

Programs can run from pretty much anywhere, so long as the user invoking the program has execute permissions.

As to the canonical locations for executable, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are common locations. However, whether you can invoke a program by only program name depends on your search path settings.

Issue the command:

set | grep PATH

to see what directories your command shell will search automatically to find programs.

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