12-04-2004
Why didn't it work?
What error output was there?
The "./configure && make && make install" three-card-trick is a generalisation - did you read the README and/or INSTALL files contained within the tarball?
Were you "cd'd" into the root of the source directory (i.e. the directory containing the configure script) when you issued the commands?
My usual procedure for installing a tarball under linux is...
$ cd /usr/local/src
$ ls
my-src-0.1.tar.gz
$ zcat my-src-0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ ls
my-src-0.1
my-src-0.1.tar.gz
$ cd my-src-0.1
$ more README
$ more INSTALL
$ ./configure && make && su -c "make install"
Of course, your install routine will no doubt differ. Make sure you read README and INSTALL for the correct installation procedure for your package.
If you can, try somewhere like rpmfind.net to download an rpm file for your distribution - then just use rpm -i to install it - could save you a lot of headaches.
Cheers
ZB
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
ssh-copy-id
SSH-COPY-ID(1) General Commands Manual SSH-COPY-ID(1)
NAME
ssh-copy-id - install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys
SYNOPSIS
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
DESCRIPTION
ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine and append the indicated identity file to that machine's ~/.ssh/autho-
rized_keys file.
If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in your
ssh-agent. Otherwise, if this:
ssh-add -L
provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file.
If the -i option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity file. Once it has one or more fin-
gerprints (by whatever means) it uses ssh to append them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating the file, and directory,
if necessary.)
NOTES
This program does not modify the permissions of any pre-existing files or directories. Therefore, if the remote sshd has StrictModes set in
its configuration, then the user's home, ~/.ssh folder, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file may need to have group writability disabled manu-
ally, e.g. via
chmod go-w ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
on the remote machine.
SEE ALSO
ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), sshd(8)
OpenSSH 14 November 1999 SSH-COPY-ID(1)