HD Install :: Linux newbie having some problems.



Well for ahwile i've been doing my best to jump off the windose bandwagon and it's slowly been working. I love have dsl just ready to go.

Well i finally did a hd install on my spare comp (main ones been dead) and I didn't want to do a full linux distro install, so I figured "hey! I'll do dsl" and things have been going pretty well, until now.

I've been learning my way around the file system and what not and installing programs, then the ones that those need to install and thats been going well until I have to go gettext. I understand that this needs to go into some libary but I'm not sure which.

I did the normal make, make install routine and tried Glib (which requires gettext to get past the config) But glib still doesn't see the gettext files ???  

Any help would be greatly apperciated.
You might need to run ldconfig as root.  You may also need to add the gettext lib directory to your lib path, in /etc/ld.so.conf, if it is in a place not already specified in that file.

Another possibility is that you have installed only the gettext runtime files.  This is fine for running pre-compiled programs that use gettext, but if you're compiling against gettext you might also need gettext headers (includes).

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