I just got a mepis live cd... I am running it live on my laptop.

I was able to get sound installed, but i am having trouble installing a program. The program is called "Wireless Assistant" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wlassistant/)

Mepis detects my wireless, and it will allow me to detect my two access points, but i can not connect (dont know how...)

This is what i was told to do to install it;

I am able to extract it, and i am able to change the directory... but i can not run the command "./configure --prefix = /usr". It isn't recognised as a command?


Sorry for such a newb question, but i am still used to windo$...



Can someone please help me? I am apart of another forum, and i get extremely mad when people ask dumb questions like this, but i really have no idea!



Thank you! (i just want wireless!)

./configure is actually telling the computer to run a shell script that is contained in the current directory (which you just set by using cd). If the terminal cannot find the command, perhaps you had better check to make sure it's there. Type the following at the prompt:
Look at the output printed. There should be a file listed there named "configure". If the files don't seem remotely like the source code (no INSTALL, README files), then perhaps you're in the wrong directory.

If you're using a terminal app to enter your commands, usually the easiest way to solve the problem mentioned is to drag the wlassistant onto the terminal app, which will automatically paste the folder's location; add "cd" in front of it, and then hit return. Then try the configure script again.

Hope this helps

Yes, there is a file named "configure"...


Edit:

When i type in


i get the following error


What the heck???

That means that the shell can find the configure script, but cannot get past a certain line. This could be due to a number of things, but the easiest way to find out what's wrong is to try this command instead:
Post any error messages you get.

Thank you for your help so far.

You may want to try downloading and installing SCons first to see if that fixes anything.

My other suspicion is that python is not in the PATH variable. Try running echo $PATH at the shell. You'll get a list of paths seperated by colons. If /usr/bin isn't listed, then you'll need to enter the following:
And then try running the configure script again.

Sorry i am so dumb with linux... now how do you install SCons?

Hehe, looks like you're going to have to install another package from source.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...0.96.94.tar.gz

That's what is annoying about compiling from source - all too often packages have other dependancies which have dependancies of their own, causing you to go on a wild goosechase trying to install all these other packages to get the original to compile.

So i should try everything i tried before? Great...


Wait... I can't... tar.gz isn't a tar.bz2, so i can not do what i tried before... So, back to my sub-original question; how do i install it?

Ah. Unarchiving tar.gz is nearly identical to unarchiving tar.bz2. Just enter something like this at the shell:
A directory containing the source code will then be created. cd to this, and then proceed with regular compilation steps.