[vox-tech] compiling cvs nv

[Jimbo]

Alex Mandel wrote:
> Jimbo wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> My kde desktop has been crashing.  Found out that there wasn't enough 
>> air going over my gpu.
>>
>> With this I searched and found a program called nvclock.  After d/l 
>> via synaptic and trying it it wouldn't recognize my gpu (8800gtx).  I 
>> was fortunate to talk to the programmer in irc channel #nvclock in 
>> which I have to cvs the updated nvclock then compile it.  With his 
>> help he gave me the shell commands that then proceeded to unload a 
>> whole bunch of files.  He had to go to bed so I didn't bug him on 
>> compiling.
>>
>> I have tried to self teach myself how to compile (via googling) what 
>> I have just d/l but finding that it is becoming a very huge obstacle.
>>
>> If someone has the time can someone please enlighten me?  I have no 
>> idea where to begin.
>>
>> If this helps this is the shell imput/output: (had to d/l cvs)
>>
>
> The typical I don't know what I'm doing nor do I need to compile.
> 1. Make sure you have compiling tools, on Ubuntu a package call 
> build-essential has it all. gcc/g++ and all the other goodies.
> 2. cd into the directory nvclock
> 3. ./configure
> 4. make
> 5. make install or checkinstall(I prefer checkinstall as it makes a 
> package for your system which makes it easy to uninstall later)- note 
> checkinstall is different from your normal packages and it may or may 
> not work on other people's computers, mileage varies and it's not the 
> technically correct way to compile packages.
>
> hope that helps,
> Alex
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[root at localhost jimbo]# cd /home/jimbo/nvclock
[root at localhost nvclock]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[root at localhost nvclock]#