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<h2>Installing Software From Source</h2>
<p>Lots of text here:</p>
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$ wget http://example.com/folder/tarball.bz2
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<p>And there are the steps for installing software compressed in gz files:</p>
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$ tar -xvzf downloadedFile.tar.gz
$ cd downloadedFile-folder
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
# logout
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
su #and enter your root pass when asked
make install
ldconfig #not always needed, but can't hurt
exit
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© 2005-2006 example.com</div>
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Why should that code get displayed? Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
[edited by: encyclo at 3:16 pm (utc) on June 8, 2006]
[edit reason] examplified, simplified and fixed formatting [/edit]
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wget url-to-tar.bz2-file
tar -xvvjf tar.bz2-file
cd brand-new-folder
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
su #and enter your root pass when asked
make install
ldconfig #not always needed, but can't hurt
exit
-->See those two dashes in front of the prefix? That's where the problem is.
[w3.org...]
<added> encyclo caught my first reply which was totally off base. I caught it too, but just in time before encyclo posted. ;)
[edited by: pageoneresults at 3:12 pm (utc) on June 8, 2006]
Error Line 98 column 14: invalid comment declaration: found name start character outside comment but inside comment declaration.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
The double-hyphen in the code acts as a comment declaration when you're in standards-compliance mode.
See:
<added> you're too fast for me ;) </added>
[edited by: encyclo at 3:18 pm (utc) on June 8, 2006]
Also, your code above is not valid. If you're going to use XHTML, then you really should consider making your code validate. If you're really just serving up HTML, then use the HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE instead.
As for the pages not validating, they are now! I needed to get the header graphic and title up quickly, and ran into a problem with the CSS, so I did a table with two errors in it! I corrected the errors and in any case, that table will soon be history when I publish the site layout.
Thanks, everybody!
