Install help

[MRobW2]

Hello,

This is very noobish question and I have been trying to figure it out for some time now. Whenever I try to install an external program I unpack the tarball, and do the ./configure command inside the directory of what I'm trying to install but when I enter "make" it tells me that that command doesn't exist. What I want to know is what I'm doing wrong and how to install...anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Mark

[someguyouknow]

Re: Install help

sudo aptitude install build-essential

that should give you what you need...

what program is it? it may be in the repositories already or have a .deb

[MRobW2]

Re: Install help

I figured out how to get everything installed, I did what you told me with the build-essential That worked out great thank you :-). Then I went ahead and downloaded automake and autoconf. My problems with installaiton are gone. But another issue has come up, I'm trying to run dosbox so that I can play wolfenstien 3D but the package I had to install for it to run is not working. I get this error message when I try to run dosbox

CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a configfile to change them
MIDI:Opened device:none
Exit to error: SDL:Can't set palette

My new question is how do I create a configfile?

Thanks so much
Mark