When I type clean install I get the error:

No command ‘clean’ found, did you mean:
Command ‘uclean’ from package ‘svn-buildpackage’ (universe)
Command ‘clear’ from package ‘ncurses-bin’ (main)

Thanks in advance,
Sachin

root@kmmr-LINUX:/home/kmmr/Desktop/me/firefox# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

But how can I get rid of an installed source package? “make uninstall” doesn’t work, neither does “apt-get remove”. It seems this removes only the sources but not the programm.

Do I really have to reinstall linux and everything from scratch?

1) Many linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, have automatic installations for all popular software. In most cases, it is easier to install programs in Ubuntu than it is for Mac or a PC because of the Ubuntu Software Center, a program that comes with Ubuntu that helps you to find programs that you need, helps you get the documentation for the programs, and installs them for you. What’s more, you can always go back to the Ubuntu Software Center and remove those programs just as easily.

2) When you do come across software that you’d like to compile yourself or software that you must compile to use, ALWAYS READ THE README.TXT AND/OR THE INSTALL.TXT files that come with the source code. Using default instructions such as the ones listed on this page will not always work. That wasn’t the point of this post though. This post is just meant to help understand some common steps to building an application and it is NOT meant to be a complete guide to installing programs on Linux.

3) The official Ubuntu forums (or the official forums for your Linux distribution if not Ubuntu)
should always be checked before assuming that there is no solution to your problems. Here is the English site: http://ubuntuforums.org/ and here is the page for other languages: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/locallanguage

4) Ubuntugeek.com is also awesome, don’t get me wrong. There is great info here too.

Thank you all for you time, I hope this helps.
Jeff at burningtoken.com

Extract it to your user folder, and see the README file.

I am trying to install lighttpd from source.
The instructions given on their page are not valid for the ones from svn setups.
Depending upon package you may need to tweak in with it.

If this could be fixed/created it would make Linux more friendly than it already is.\

If someone knows of something like this point me in the right direction please.

Be happy, go Linux. XD

Do you know what could be wrong.

Thanks for your time
Bryan

ps. can someone please email me Im not quiet sure how this all works thanks again

To compile songbird follow the steps on the website (http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Getting_Started/Core_Player_Development/Building_Songbird#Linux).

If that’s too complicated, then follow these:

1) Open terminal
2) Put in this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials subversion libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins base0.10-dev libgtk2.0-dev

3) Then put this into terminal (line-by-line):

mkdir ~/sbird
cd ~/sbird
svn co http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/client/trunk
cd trunk/dependencies

4) Keep terminal open…. You didn’t specify if you’re on a 64-bit or 32-bit distro of Ubuntu, so if you’re on 64-bit put this into terminal:

svn co http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/vendor-binaries/trunk/linux-x86_64

if you’re on 32-bit, put this in:

svn co http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/vendor-binaries/trunk/linux-i686

5) Once that’s done do this:

cd ~/sbird/trunk
make -f songbird.mk

6) Songbird should be compiled now. I can’t tell you how to install it from here because I don’t use linux, I use Mac OS X. I’d assume you’d just do:

sudo make install

but I can’t be sure of that. Either way, you can start sonbird by going into ~/sbird/compiled/dist in your file browser and double clicking it.

I’m sure someone can tell you better than I can how to install it and make it a bit easier to turn on.