[Toolserver-l] A beginner's question

[Alex]

On 2/5/2011 6:03 PM, Platonides wrote:
> Alex Brollo wrote:
>> I'd like to install into my toolserver account djvuLibre binaries.
>> Unluckily my knowlege of Unix is very primitive - approaching to nothing.
>>
>> Is some of you willing to take a look to
>> http://djvu.sourceforge.net/index.html, and to tell me if
>> Solaris 6 (sparc)djvulibre-3.5.5-solaris6-sparc.tar.gz
>> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/djvu/djvulibre-3.5.5-solaris6-sparc.tar.gz>
>> binary package is the right one?
> 
> It is not. Solaris servers are Xeons and Opterons, so binaries for sparc
> architecture are not appropiate.
> 
>> and.... is a good idea to install it
>> into toolserver? finally, if it's a good idea: is there a simple "magic
>> recipe" to install that package in UNIX? I never installed binaries into
>> a unix environment....
> 
> wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/djvu/djvulibre-3.5.23.tar.gz
> tar -xvf djvulibre-3.5.23.tar.gz
> cd djvulibre-3.5.23
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME
> make
> make install
> # You can then remove djvulibre-3.5.23 folder and djvulibre-3.5.23.tar.gz
> 

Or just file a JIRA ticket to have it installed for everyone.

-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)