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[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:43:45AM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>  
>>> I guess I can't install that with apt-get...     
>>
>> Well one method would be to just get the .deb packages from somewhere
>> that has them such as ubuntu hardy.
>>
>> You can get the .deb's and install them with dpkg -i blah.deb ...
>>
>> You can find them here:
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-driver/
>>   
> Why is there never any one around when I'm doin the really scary 
> stuff. Oh, well, here's trashin' my system...
>
> Okay, at the above site there is no .deb file with the name 
> 'alsa-driver' in it. So, I chose 'alsa-driver_1.0.15.orig.tar.gz
>
> I downloaded that to my desktop and ran 'sudo tar -xzvf 
> /home/chris/Desktop/alsa-driver*
>
> That unpackaged everything in to my home drive. I did cd to get into 
> the 'alsa-driver-1.0.15' directory. I started the steps from the 
> 'INSTALL' readme and ran./configure:
>
> chris at cpc:~/alsa-driver-1.0.15$ ./configure
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> So, do I have to do apt-get install gcc before any of this will work?
I guess not...

chris at cpc:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


>
> Chris
>
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-lib/
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-utils/
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-plugins/
>>
>> And you can get the alsa-firmware for 1.0.15 from the same place you got
>> it before, or you can get it here:
>>
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/tsmithe/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-firmware/
>>
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>> Len Sorensen
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