help me on installing vumeter-0.9.2 plugin for xmms

[saurabh kakkar]

hi
i have just installed xmms on my ubuntu 7.04 .now i want to install vumeter-0.9.2 plug in for it so i downloaded the vumeter-0.9.2.tar.gz and extracted it on the .xmms folder nd put the following command for installing as given in the read file :

Global installation (root privileges required):
 ./configure
 make
 make install
 mkdir /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/
 cp -R skins/* /usr/share/xmms/VU_Meter_skins/

but it is not being installed My terminal is giving following error :

saurabh@ubuntu:~$ cd .xmms
saurabh@ubuntu:~/.xmms$ cd vumeter-0.9.2
saurabh@ubuntu:~/.xmms/vumeter-0.9.2$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
saurabh@ubuntu:~/.xmms/vumeter-0.9.2$

plz help me in installing considering me a noob

 

[Hitboxx]

Do you have the gcc libraries installed?

apt-cache policy gcc

If not install them. => sudo apt-get install gcc

And isnt vumeter available in repo?

apt-cache policy vumeter

If using terminal appears complex, use Synaptic installer.

 

[saurabh kakkar]

QUOTE=saurabh kakkar]I have gcc installed on my ubuntu 7.04 also when i m trying to install

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saurabh@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev g++ gcc

i m getting the following

saurabh@ubuntu:~/.xmms/vumeter-0.9.2$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev g++ gcc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev linux-libc-dev
Suggested packages:
  gcc-4.1-doc lib64stdc++6 glibc-doc manpages-dev libstdc++6-4.1-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  g++ g++-4.1 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev linux-libc-dev
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7900kB of archives.
After unpacking 32.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

now what to do ?
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[Hitboxx]

Yes install them, hit 'Y'

 

[saurabh kakkar]

Yes install them, hit 'Y'

i think u have not gone through it completely it says :
Need to get 0B/7900kB of archives.

which i think means that i have this package installed na ?

also when if i press yes it get stuck on 16% what to do ? also ./configure is still giving me same error
error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

what to do ?

 

[Hitboxx]

No, need to get means it will download the files, 8mb in your case.

Getting stuck means either the server's very busy(congestion) or you got a network problem from your side in which case check with your isp.