Ubuntu :: Installing ".tar.gz" Driver - What Is "terminal" And "source Directory"
May 8, 2011
using the new 11.04 version. and i have "creative x-fi sb" sound card i downloaded its linux compatible driver from creative website and it was .tar.gz file i extracted it and opened the readme file to read the instructions and it was like that
Quote:
Quick install In terminal,
1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
make
make install
i don't know what is "terminal" and what is "source directory" .. actually i don't understand anything of these instructions
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Apr 13, 2011
I've tried a couple times to install from a tar.gz file and when i try to compile the source code in the terminal I get this error "tar: bash-4.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory" what am I doing wrong? Now when I download the files, I leave themin the down loads folder, do i need to make a new directory? If so how do I do that and how do i call it up when I compile the sopurce?
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May 2, 2010
I'm having trouble installing a usb wireless adapter.
Code: # lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c526 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
(It came with a linux driver but not sure how to install it)
Code: /2009_1106_RT3070_Linux_STA_V2.1.1.0 (2) # ls
chips
iwpriv_usage.txt
README_STA_usb
sta
common
Makefile
RT2870STACard.dat
sta_ate_iwpriv_usage.txt
include
os
RT2870STA.dat
tools the readme just has a change log, no instructions.
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Aug 23, 2010
I have a dell PC running on Fedora 12, and I would like to install this SCSI controller card from adaptec:[URL]I see that the driver for Linux is available only as source code. Can somebody please indicate me how to proceed? I am not advanced enough in Linux to know what to do with it myself...I downloaded the most recent (v2.0.26) Source Code for Linux Kernel v2.6 on all platforms.Here are the contents of the tarball (if it helps in any way):
03/09/2007 08:42 PM 10,821 aic7770.c
03/09/2007 08:42 PM 8,088 aic7770_osm.c
03/09/2007 08:42 PM 51,838 aic79xx.h
[code]....
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Nov 19, 2010
i was not able to install alsa...showing the error checking for directory with kernel source... Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel sources (default is /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5xen/source). my friends installed the alsa for cent os 5.4...how to rectify this...
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Jul 15, 2010
Okay I've used an X11 Terminal on MAC OS to compile programs but never a driver. I'm now using SUSE 11.3 (first linux to install on my toshiba correctly). Alas I need help telling the terminal what to do. It came with instructions that the modules and firmware need to be set up or injected into the kerenal.
My Wireless Driver is: Realtek 8192SE driver version Linux: 2.6.0017.0507
My Computer is a Toshiba L505-ES5034.
Like I said I've compiled software in X11 before but never a driver. So first I navigate to the files using CD (change dir) and then what?
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Oct 8, 2010
I downloaded the tar file and extract it in my downloads directory. After that I did the compiling and installing as per ReadMe file. Now, is it safe to delete that directory with the source?
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Jul 4, 2011
I pulled a stupid when trying to install VLC through the terminal and added the ppa source for a different version of ubuntu. Now when I do a sudo apt-get update I come up with the error:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed...source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Also in the midst of the long list i found:
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net natty/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
I tried to look in /etc/apt/sources.list for the source to remove it but I couldn't find it. Where is it located and how can I undo what I did?
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Apr 19, 2011
I'm trying to install the rt2870 driver on my server running Ubuntu Server 8.04. I've installed build-essential, checkinstall, cvs, subversion, git-core, mercurial... After uncompressing the tarball, doing a "sudo make" gives me this output:
[Code]...
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May 4, 2010
i know that the command /.configure will make the "make" file and then i have to make " make install" to install the app. but how to deal with the dependency problem ? i asked my friend about it and he said why dont you use apt instead to install packages but what if i want to use distos like slackware? anyway that friend was not interested in helping me out and i m not expecting to. but can anybody answer this in detail or provide any document on this..
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Feb 22, 2010
I have a problem in programing pseudo terminal. In the book APUE (advanced programing in the unix environment) in chapter 15.4: coprocess gives an example of using pipe to operate another program, that provide its input and read its output: Figure 15.18. Figure 15.19 is filter to add two numbers using standard IO. The author said that you must flush the IO buffer in the program which are operated through pipe by another program, however, we cannot add fflush to the source code and re-compile the whole program if we need to use it in another process. It said that pseudo terminal can solve this problem, but I have tried in fedora12 with forkpty call and fail. Source code as follows:
The main process:
Code:
#include "common.h"
#define LINESIZE 256
int main()
{
int fd[2];
pid_t pid;
if( socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd)<0 ) {
perror("create socket error");
exit(1);
}
int master;
struct termios tm;
if( tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &tm)<0 ) {
perror("tcgetattr error");
exit(3);
}
struct winsize size;
if( ioctl(STDIN_FILENO, TIOCGWINSZ, (char*)&size)<0 ) {
perror("ioctl error");
exit(4);
}
setbuf(stdout, NULL);
pid=forkpty(&master, NULL, &tm, &size);
if( pid<0 ) {
perror("create process error");
exit(2);
}
else if(pid>0) {//parent
close(fd[1]);
char line[LINESIZE];
memset(line, 0, LINESIZE);
while( fgets(line, LINESIZE, stdin)!=NULL ) {
write(fd[0], line, strlen(line));
memset(line, 0, LINESIZE);
int n=read(fd[0], line, LINESIZE);
if(n>=0) line[n]=0;
printf("%s", line);
memset(line, 0, LINESIZE);
}
} else {//child
close(fd[0]);
if( fd[1]!=STDIN_FILENO ) {
if(dup2(fd[1], STDIN_FILENO)!=STDIN_FILENO) {
perror("dup2 error");
exit(1);
}
}
if( fd[1]!=STDOUT_FILENO) {
if(dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO)!=STDOUT_FILENO) {
perror("dup2 error");
exit(2);
}
}
close(fd[1]);
if(execl("./add", "add", (char*)0)<0) {
perror("exec error");
exit(3);
}
exit(0);
}
//parent
wait(NULL);
return 0;
}
The add program reads a line and get two numbers and return the sum of them.
Code:
#include "common.h"
int main() { int n1, n2;
char line[256];
memset(line, 0, 256);
while( fgets(line, 256, stdin)!=NULL) {
sscanf(line, "%d%d", &n1, &n2);
printf("%d", n1+n2);
fflush(NULL); /*the program does not work without this sentence why?*/
memset(line, 0, 256); } return 0; }
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[URL]
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May 16, 2010
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Code:
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Code:
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Code:
./configure make
sudo make install
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Code:
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[code]...
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