problem in installation of software fedora 15

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 21:26 -0400, Shailesh Srivastava wrote:
> I want to install using  ./configure ,make, make install  instead of yum
> 
> I am trying to install gedit (tar.bz2) using following command
> 1) tar xvjf package name (run successfully )
> 2)cd package (run successfully )
> 3) ./configure  (run successfully )
> 4) make  ( error :  "" make: *** No targets specified and no makefile
> found.  Stop."")
>  plzzzzz help me
Two questions:
1. Why do you want to compile gedit rather than use the precompiled rpm?

2. After you run ./configure is a makefile generated?" Or are some
arguments to ./configure needed?

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