I wan to install a shopping cart script under corel linux a product of akopia (interchange) ... when i run ./configure i recieved error:
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syntax error at makefile.pl line 555, near ") for" BEGIN not safe after error-compilation aborted make: xxx no targets
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when i tried to run it on windows 98 platform using perl commands it works the first stage on installation and aborted when i proceed.. defenitely this will not be successful coz it must installl under linux platform. my question is.. i'm only a beginner... do i have to recompile or update the kernel or do i have to do some special settings for linux since i'm first time for this.. why is it in redhat the installation process is easy as cake....
pls..help i'll really appreciate it godspeed!

You posted this in 4 different forums. Please do not do this in the future. I am closing three of them. Did you read the README that came with the package? Was ./configure the first step?

yes i did check the readme...but i;m not sure if i'm following the system requirements and i'm confused if the os is the problem coz' in readme the only os i see there is redhat and others but not with corel linux that i'm using right now... well my friend test it to his server using telnet and it owrks fine but in my case theres no way i can use telnet coz i'm just running corel linux on my system locally... pls.. help with this jeremy.. its really hard to be a newbie...
this is the readme is all about
INTERCHANGE README:
NAME
icrpm - Interchange RPM for Redhat Systems

VERSION

4.5.6

SYNOPSIS
rpm -Uvh interchange-4.5.6-5.rpm

DESCRIPTION
The Interchange 4 RPM is designed to integrate Interchange with a stock
Redhat installation. It places logs and run files in fairly standard
locations, i.e.:

Configuration
Configuration file is /etc/interchange.cfg. It is only writable by
root.

Data
Catalog directories, at least the demos, are located in
/var/lib/interchange.

Invocation
Invocation is the normal /etc/rc.d startup method. Interchange
installs to be active in run levels 3, 4, and 5; to be killed in
all.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not expect /usr/lib/interchange/bin/restart to
work!

Interchange uses a special invocation script, located at
/usr/lib/bin/interchange, to start the Interchange server. This is
called by /etc/rc.d/init.d/interchange.

Run Run files go in /var/run/interchange/*. The subdirectory is needed
to allow the Interchange user ID to write/create files.

Logs
Logs go in /var/log/interchange/*. The subdirectory is needed to
allow the Interchange user ID to write/create files.

ASSUMPTIONS
The Interchange RPM makes several assumptions:

Stock Apache
Interchange relies upon the following things in the Apache
installation:

For Red Hat Linux 6.x:
-- Server root in /home/httpd
-- ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/

For Red Hat Linux 7.x:
-- Server root in /var/www
-- ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/

In general:
-- Hostname as revealed by `hostname` is the ServerName
-- SuExec not enabled

If you have SuExec enabled, you are responsible for changing
permissions and running parameters appropriately. You can typically
disable SuEXEC by running `chmod u-s /usr/bin/suexec'.

If you want to continue to user suexec, you will have to compile the
appropriate INET mode link program and use it instead of VLINK.

Logs
Logs are located in /var/log/interchange. Interchange drops a file
in /etc/logrotate.d to do log rotation.

Run files
To place the logs, configuration, and run files in standard
Red Hat/LSB locations, Interchange relies on a special invocation
from /usr/lib/bin/interchange. In other words, don't expect
/usr/lib/interchange/bin/restart to work.

Interchange will be started by this command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/interchange start

and will be re-started by this command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/interchange restart

or possibly:

/usr/lib/bin/interchange -r

The run files, i.e. UNIX-domain socket, catalog status files, will
be placed in /var/run/interchange. That directory must be
owned/writable by the interchange user ID.

sorry jeremy i bombarded your forum.. i have no intension to ruin your forum.. i'm just so desperate to solve my linux problem.. promise that wont happen again
Thanks and more power!

[Edited by fritzlero on 10-24-2000 at 09:09 AM]

It appears that you downloaded an RPM. You cannot install RPM's on Corel as it is a Debian based distro. You need to find the tarball and compile from source (or find the .deb if there is one).

well i did nothing to the corel... i juts install it and run the script... so if this is the case... why is it i saw some redhat options upon installing corel for the first time? do i have to remove somehing like rpm file and install .de patch for corel...?
thanks and more power...

if you have the Debian package "alien" installed, it will allow you to build a .deb package that you can then correctly install and remove later.
Building a .deb from an RPM takes me 20 minutes or so for a 60MB RPM on a 200 MHz machine.
For alien to build a .deb, it requires that you have the rpm debian package installed. rpm will let you just install the rpm directly, but I recommend using alien so you can later remove the package.

As usual, reading the relevant man pages (alien and rpm in Debian or Corel) before using will make your life easier.

hi there.. thanks for helping me out... btw , where can i get debian packages and how can i install it..? so i dont have to delete the rpm patch to my corel linux just download some debian and it will go on....?
thanks...

thanks for helping me out... btw, where can i get those debian packages and how to install it?...on the cd i dont see any debian package... do i have to delete rpm patch on my system or i just install the debian and i is set to go...?
thanks an more power..