Installing a program via the terminal problem

[Swerve1000]

Hi,

I am trying to install a voice recognition program called CMU Sphinx on my Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Server Ed system.

I have been using this tutorial:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/...l#traintarball

The installation tutorial says to use the following command:

configure --prefix=`pwd`/build --with-sphinxbase=`pwd`/../sphinxbase

But when I run the command, I get the following output:

:./configure: WARNING: Unrecognised options: --with- configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: pwd/build

I am thinking this maybe my lack of knowledge using terminal commands, and so was wondering if anyone could tel me where I'm going wrong.

Many thanks for any help with this, it's most appreciated

[korleon]

I'm fairly new to the command line as well, but here it goes..

configure --prefix=`pwd`/build --with-sphinxbase=`pwd`/../sphinxbase

the last part is short hand for move up one level and then down to a location /sphinxbase.

Is it there and have you tried replacing the

`pwd`/../sphinxbase

with the absolute path to sphinxbase?

for example:

/parent_directory/sphinxbase

[Old *ix Geek]

But when I run the command, I get the following output:

:./configure: WARNING: Unrecognised options: --with- configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: pwd/build

Try running it by replacing `pwd`/build and `pwd`/../sphinxbase with the actual absolute path names. For example:

configure --prefix=/DIRECTORY/build --with-sphinxbase=/DIRECTORY/SUBDIRECTORY/sphinxbase

[korleon]

Thanks Old *ix Geek. I defer you your expertise.

[Swerve1000]

Thanks chaps!

I don't seem to have this 'build' directory.

Google seems to suggest installing the headers for my kernel?

Does that sound right?

[korleon]

Yes you can use uname -a and then search synaptic for the appropriate kernel headers.

[wojox]

Or just run this to install them:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)