tarball file installation

[mh5896]

Hello Experts i am little new to linux, i have one question.
Q:I have a Source .tarball file when i decompress it with -zxvf for tar.bz & -jxvf for tar.bz2 file, it get ./configure by this command but when i try to "make" that file it says
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
i have this problem with many tarball file.
plz any help

[Louis]

After untar'ing the tar.gz or tar.bz2 file, change your directory to the particulat untar'ed file and excute the commands.......But make sure that, make file is present at the untar'ed directory.

[Avin]

Do you get any error while ./configure command ? If yes post the total error.

and Don't forget to give parameter --prefix to installed software in one directory which is really helpful at the time of remove.
./configure --prefix=/your/path/for/install

Avin

[mh5896]

Thanks