[techtalk] Installing Tarballs

[Dan Nguyen]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:22PM -0800, GJS wrote:
> I was trying to install a tarball and got this message:
> 
> Checking host system type...Configure: error: can not guess host
> type; you must specify one.
> 
> What does this mean and how do I fix it?
>

<sarcasm>
/me dons magic psychic hat of power
/me enters a deep transe

It seems like you've done something wrong, perhaps you didn't read
the documentation.  
</sarcasm>

Anyways, you haven't provided enough information.  Simply saying it
doesn't work won't help allow anyone to be able to help you.  For
example, you need to tell use what your trying to install.  What
command you've done.  And please make sure you read the installation
documentation if it exists.  If you are still having problems please
provide the relavent information, and everyone will try and help.


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