Re: UnTaring files

[Himanshu Gohel <gohel csee usf edu>]

John Ellertson wrote:

> configure, make and make install just fine (according to the README and
> Install files) but I can't seem to make the executables work .... I have
> tried with Balsa (an e-mail program), firestarter (a firewall) and with

Since you didn't say exactly what you mean when you say you can't make
the executables work, I'll start with the basics:

Try this with balsa - if you ran 'make install' with default options,
it probably installed in /usr/local/bin/balsa.  So first thing is to
check if /usr/local/bin is in your path:

echo $PATH

and see if /usr/local/bin is in there somewhere.  I suspect it is. 
Next,
did 'make install' really install the binary there?

which balsa

Should return /usr/local/bin/balsa.  Now, does it run?

balsa

What messages do you get?  Please post.  If on the other hand you
don't have the balsa binary installed, go backward - run make install
again (as root).  If that fails, try 'make' again to build it and
look for errors.  If 'make' failes, try the configure step again and
see if that succeeds.  Check the logs for all of these steps to make
sure there aren't any errors in them.

Good luck,

Himanshu