-- Posted by yoshiness at 10:58 pm on June 13, 2009 Every program I try to install requires some kind of library. I'll install that library, however, the program will refuse to install because it says there's an error with that particular library. -.- I've managed to install 0 programs so far because of this. -- Posted by shadowpool at 11:02 pm on June 13, 2009 Quote: from yoshiness at 2:58 am on June 14, 2009 Every program I try to install requires some kind of library. I'll install that library, however, the program will refuse to install because it says there's an error with that particular library. -.- I've managed to install 0 programs so far because of this. What distro are you trying to use and how are you trying to install these programs? -- Posted by yoshiness at 11:06 pm on June 13, 2009 Quote: from shadowpool at 1:02 am on June 14, 2009 Quote: from yoshiness at 2:58 am on June 14, 2009 Every program I try to install requires some kind of library. I'll install that library, however, the program will refuse to install because it says there's an error with that particular library.    -.-    I've managed to install 0 programs so far because of this. What distro are you trying to use and how are you trying to install these programs? Xubuntu because it's meant to run on lesser hardware. I'm using the terminal to install the programs. I do this : ./configure make make install make clean Most of the programs won't go anywhere past make. -- Posted by Macropiper at 1:41 pm on June 14, 2009 Have you installed the development packages? As well as installing, say, libmad, you also have to install libmad-devel. The Ubuntu naming conventions for packages may differ from this. You may need to do some searching. Also, if possible, get software through apt-get, that way it will stay up to date and the dependencies will be automatically resolved when installing it. What software are you trying to install? -- Posted by Sector Corrupt at 2:42 pm on June 14, 2009 Yes, as has been mentioned, Installing from sourcecode is a fairly difficult affair when it comes to dependencies. I highly recommend looking into whether it is possible to get with a package manager such as apt-get, or even as a .deb package. Otherwise you'll have to find wherever the package lists its dependencies and individually install all of those on your own. -- Posted by ihax at 5:16 pm on June 23, 2009 Have you had luck installing the software with Synaptic? Or running aptitude to install them (apt-get)? That is, assuming that they are programs that are in their library. -- Posted by anonomouse at 12:41 am on June 30, 2009 Quote: from ihax at 5:16 pm on June 23, 2009 Have you had luck installing the software with Synaptic? Or running aptitude to install them (apt-get)?   That is, assuming that they are programs that are in their library. Use some type of package manager. Else, installing/uninstalling is a huge pain and is almost impossible (well not really, but you know what I mean).