i tried searching, but didnt see anything. is there a way to close this post or do i need to or.. .? thanks again.

ghans, that command helped me get the lib files i needed! thank you. it didn't help the installation manually from the shell through the source file though. so i just gave up on it and used the apt-get through the shell to install it, which it worked fine. Maybe later when i'm further along with lin...

I'll try ghans solution first and if it works, I'll close this posting. If not, I'll get a hold of an admin and have this moved. Thank you

I can post this to the Advanced forum. That is no problem. How do I do this? Simply copy/paste everything over or is there a setting? Also, just to note, I'm new to Linux, so after a few basics, I'm not sure what would constitute advanced, intermediate, or beginner as everything is new to me, so I a...

Thanks for your continued help :D So I simply typed 'make' while in the directory and things started happening.. but then i received this message: (screen shot for more info) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gcc -fPIC -c `p...

I tried to reveal hidden files, but that doesn't seem to produce anything that shows as a configure file. I took a screen shot to show (sorry, i did the best screen shot i could) and asking the shell to list all hidden files. Just to make double sure I wasn't missing anything in the sub-directories,...

Right off the bat, I apologize if I posted in the wrong area for this question. I have my Raspberry Pi running fine and it has Scratch installed. I mainly got the Pi to learn Linux and take a stab at programming. One of the first things I'm doing is attempting to work with the Shell and get comforta...