[plug] installation problem

[Jon L. Miller]

Thanks Leon for that, I'll keep that in mind the next time.  As for now
I got MPlayer installed and it is working like a charm. 

Jon

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:04 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Sunday 26 December 2004 21:40, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> > make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> 
> > Can someone explain why this happens and how to fix it.
> 
> Either the person who wrote the makefile didn't write an installer part 
> (e.g. because they expected it to be packed into an RPM) or you need to 
> run the make in a subdirectory (likely src/).
> 
> > The program I'm trying to install is xine on SuSE Pro v9.2.
> 
> Consider one of the following options:
> 
>  * search for an appropriate SuSE RPM;
> 
>  * pull a source RPM from another distro, install and rebuild it;
> 
>  * pull an older source RPM from SuSE and bolt the newer xine
>    archive into it (done by putting the archive in SOURCES/ and
>    tweaking the xine.spec file in SPECS/ to match).
> 
> Cheers; Leon
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