Problem installing Network Manager.

Jed S

I am new to installing programs and might just be missing something obvious. I am attempting to install Network Manager on Debian 2.6.26. When I do

./confiigure

I get

Permission Denied

so I am attempting to change the ownership to root with

chown root/

then getting

No such file or directory

when I do

ls

I get

No such file or directory

but then it proceeds to list the files in the directory.

Jed Stuart

mfillpot

Are you logged in as root?
Is the file you are trying to execute executable by the root user?

Jed S

I have tried it as root and as user.
The file is owned by user and suposedly executable by user although setuid is not on.

Jed S

I solved the chown problem. Chown did not like the directory name that was created during the unpacking of the package. It got called NetworkManager-0.8.2 . Changing it to just NetworkManager sorted that.

I am still getting
./configure
permission denied

the install file tells me that there might need to be unusal options added to configure.

mfillpot

You don't want anything to be setuid unless it is absolutely necessary, so kick that out of your mind.

Now you want to see the following when you check the output of "ls -l configure":
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root {filesize} {mod date} configure*
the information in {} will be replaced with specific information from the file.

If the permissions to now match what is shown then you can run "chmod 755 configure".

Jed S

Thanks, I got the permissions right and found that I needed to add the path to the gcc for ./configure to work. Now I am getting the error:
C compiler cannot create executables.
There seem to be a lot of people having this error message and I am yet to find a clear statement on what it could be.

mfillpot

The error message is due to the configure arguments not directing it to the proper architecture for your system. Most likely you are running a 64-bit system and the app is configured to build on a 32-bit system.

Jed S

It is getting some information about my computer. Here is the configure.log.

............................

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by NetworkManager configure 0.8.2, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.66. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure CC=/usr/lib/gcc

##

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## Platform. ##
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---

##

hostname = asus-746886103
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.26-eeepc
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Wed Nov 19 16:04:12 EST 2008

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/bin/X11


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##
## Core tests. ##
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configure:2516: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2584: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2595: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2645: result: yes
configure:2786: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2825: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2838: checking for gawk
configure:2868: result: no
configure:2838: checking for mawk
configure:2854: found /usr/bin/mawk
configure:2865: result: mawk
configure:2876: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2898: result: yes
configure:2973: checking how to create a ustar tar archive
configure:2986: tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.16
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
configure:2989: $? = 0
configure:3029: tardir=conftest.dir && eval tar --format=ustar -chf - "$tardir" >conftest.tar
configure:3032: $? = 0
configure:3036: tar -xf - <conftest.tar
configure:3039: $? = 0
configure:3052: result: gnutar
configure:3072: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles
configure:3081: result: no
configure:3112: checking for style of include used by make
configure:3140: result: GNU
configure:3210: checking for gcc
configure:3237: result: /usr/lib/gcc
configure:3466: checking for C compiler version
configure:3475: /usr/lib/gcc --version >&5
./configure: line 3477: /usr/lib/gcc: is a directory
configure:3486: $? = 126
configure:3475: /usr/lib/gcc -v >&5
./configure: line 3477: /usr/lib/gcc: is a directory
configure:3486: $? = 126
configure:3475: /usr/lib/gcc -V >&5
./configure: line 3477: /usr/lib/gcc: is a directory
configure:3486: $? = 126
configure:3475: /usr/lib/gcc -qversion >&5
./configure: line 3477: /usr/lib/gcc: is a directory
configure:3486: $? = 126
configure:3506: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3528: /usr/lib/gcc conftest.c >&5
./configure: line 3530: /usr/lib/gcc: is a directory
configure:3532: $? = 126
configure:3570: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "NetworkManager"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "NetworkManager"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.8.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "NetworkManager 0.8.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "NetworkManager"
| #define VERSION "0.8.2"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:3575: error: in `/home/user/My Documents/DOWNLOADS/internetconnection/Network Manager/NetworkManager':
configure:3577: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

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## confdefs.h. ##
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/* confdefs.h */
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#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.8.2"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "NetworkManager 0.8.2"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "[email protected]"
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#define PACKAGE "NetworkManager"
#define VERSION "0.8.2"

configure: exit 77

mfillpot

Yes, it does appear that you are not passing the flags that are telling the application what architecture you are using.

If you are versed in bash I recommend that you checkout the slackbuild script that the slackware community uses to build the application at http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/13.1/network/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.SlackBuild to see what flags they use to build the same application.