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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Roger Teh wrote:

> I recently installed redhat 5.2 and is totally new to linux or unix
> environment.  I've been having lots of problem installing any programs in
> linux as when i run the make command (after running the configure command)
> this error always occurs (in every program that i've tried to install)
> 
> *** no target
> 
> i've read the INSTALL and README files and followed what it says but I
> always get stuck in the make command.  Any help would be very much
> appreciated.

OK.

make is used to compile C and C++ source code on a Linux system.

It isn't used to install software.

The reason for the "no target" error message is that you most likely don't
have a file called Makefile in the directory you are working in - not
uncommon if you're not actually attempting to compile something!

What you need to use is RPM to install new software under RedHat.

rpm --help gives you basic instructions - man rpm goes into it in more
detail.

DaZZa