Newbie problems

I’m new to Linux. I can’t get SDL to install right.

I’m running Redhat 7 and everything seems to go OK until I try and run an #
sh configure to start installing something which requires SDL. It get so far
and then fails on checking for sdl-config and SDL itself. I don’t know how
to set the path and can’t find the sdl-config file anywhere (apart from in a
tar.gz version I downloaded).

How do I get configure to find SDL? I’ve done the following things so far
and I always uninstall with rpm -e etc before retrying:

Install with rpm through Gnome.

Install with rpm through terminal (rpm -ivh filename)

Checked for SDL with rpm -v SDL and get SDL v1.2.0 returned.

Extracted tarball version and done sh configure followed by make in the SDL
directory.

Installed SDL dependant modules OK after installing SDL.

When I View Info on the rpm file through gnome it tells me the package is
not installed.

Please can someone help me as I have searched through FAQ’s and NHF’s for
hours for rpm or sdl instruction but so far as I can tell I am doing nothing
wrong.

Nick

I’m new to Linux. I can’t get SDL to install right.

I’m running Redhat 7 and everything seems to go OK until I try and run an #
sh configure to start installing something which requires SDL. It get so far
and then fails on checking for sdl-config and SDL itself. I don’t know how
to set the path and can’t find the sdl-config file anywhere (apart from in a
tar.gz version I downloaded).

Please can someone help me as I have searched through FAQ’s and NHF’s for
hours for rpm or sdl instruction but so far as I can tell I am doing nothing
wrong.

http://www.libsdl.org/faq/FAQ-Linux.html#LINUX_3

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Software, Inc.