installing tar.gz files

[rballard]

whenever i run ./configure to install a tar.gz file I get compiler could not create some executible files. And then the make command won't work after that. am i doing something wrong?

[Pumalite]

Do you have build-essential installed?
sudo apt-get install build-essential

[rballard]

ok the ./configure worked now it says

randy@Home-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2$ make install
Making install in common
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/randy/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2/common'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/randy/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2/common'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[Pumalite]

http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

[Partyboi2]

http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
Monkeyblog seems to no longer be there.

[Pumalite]

Thank you.

[Pumalite]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=500020

[Partyboi2]

ok the ./configure worked now it says

randy@Home-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2$ make install
Making install in common
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/randy/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2/common'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/randy/Desktop/Documents/genecys-0.2/common'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
When you ran ./configure did you get any errors?

[rballard]

No the./configure went through just fine.

[Pumalite]

Maybe this helps you:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/50107-how-install-tar-gz-files.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768148

[Shazaam]

sudo make install
should work.