Tar.gz files on Fedora 10 & Linpus Linux?

Question

Hey there.

I have a Acer Aspire One with runs Linpus Linux which, I believe, is based upon Fedora 6.

I quite like the Fedora based Linpus so I decided to ditch Mandriva One from my desktop and go with Fedora 10.

I have come to install the ndiswrapper to get my Windows WLAN card running and I follow the routine

tar zxvf package.tar.gz
cd package
./configure
make
make install

However, when i get to ./configure and more importantly make, I get the error message

bash: make: command not found

I checked this by doing the make command on my Linpus / Fedora 6 netbook and got the same error.


So, I have 2 Fedora based computers, on which I dont seem to be able to install tar.gz files

Any offers.

Thanks in advance

R

Answer 1

linpus is the smaller edition of freespire, ( debian based ) as is ubuntu, get ubuntu ultimate edition 2.1 from their website as you can tell by my avatar i use it and it just ran all of my wireless cards ( i have several and tried them all ) worked first time everytime with no configuration, plus i put my mate p a y g dongle in and that also regestered straight away hope this helps : )

Answer 2

See if your package manager has a package called build-essential. That one package will pull all the other packages you need to compile ndiswrapper.



Before doing that, see if there's a package called ndiswrapper-utils or something similar. That might get you what you need without having to install any development tools.

Answer 3

You don't have "make" on your machines, and you need to install that (on both machines) before you can proceed any further.



I'm not familiar with those Linux distributions (I use Ubuntu myself) but you should be able to install the relevant packages via the package manager.