configure: error: no math library found (libm)
wizzy@wizzy:~/Downloads/mp3blaster-3.2.3$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

after useing the tar zxf *****.tar.gz
and the ./configure command.
there is always an error and it never finds any target. I cant play music and videos with ubuntu. Someone please help.

dragonblader44@gmail.com

Everybody else who emails me for not a good reason will get blocked. Sorry “PLZ PLZ HELP ME I’M A NOOB”-dudes

I too have been raised up thinking computer=M$ and the blame for that is on my country’s culture and the way the government machine works. Everybody when they say computer they mean windows, in school you are taught about M$ Office and VB6(not that I have anything against VB6 because I started programming this year and I have to say it’s great for beginning programmers). During the private lessons in the evening(everybody goes ,even the stupidest of all) you learn Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access etc…(you get the point).

What I felt when I switched to Ubuntu was a total sense of FREEDOM and CREATIVITY and believe me the switch wasn’t at all that difficult like some people want you to think! My DVD drive was kinda broken so I got a utility that burned my bootable ISO Ubuntu image on my 4gb USB. So a restart ,F12 and 5 minutes later I was freed at last!

And to confirm all that I tried to boot into Vista today(yes I have kept the little thingy for me to dual-boot) and you know what I get for a reward?

A BSOD!
-.-
go figure…

I used to be a Mac fanboy, and I started using linux about a year ago, when I got an Acer Aspire One. I did’nt like the bundled distro, ‘Linpus Lite’, and I wanted Ubuntu. Not having a CD drive, I followed the instructions of the Ubuntu website on how to burn a bootable usb drive. I did this via the terminal on my aging Apple eMac, having downloaded the Ubuntu Netbook Remix ISO. I was amazed when I booted the stick on the netbook – amazed that I could operate a BIOS in the first place, and amazed that I had follwed the instructions to produce the OS I now beheld.

Since the day i installed UNR, I have not looked back; I am happily running Karmic Koala now, and the one thing I missed from the Mac, I now have – a Dock, via the ‘Docky’ theme in Gnome-Do. I have also experimented with Moblin, and Linux Mint – both of which are excellent distros- I have a portable mint system installed to a 4gb usb stick.

All in all, I am grateful to Mr Torvalds, Mr Shuttleworth, and the myriad of true geniuses, whose work has liberated us from the power of paid-for OSes. I was never beguiled by the works of Micro$h!t and all her detestable enormities, and I am grateful for my apple background, simply because it freed my mind from ever assuming ‘Microsoft=Computers’. Every Fanboy knows that Microsoft is not the first or last word, unlike so many poor, benighted souls, but Linux is a truly life transforming, paradigm shifting, epiphany of seismological and indeed pentecostal proportions.

Big up freedom. Computer users of the world, unite!, you have only your bugs to lose, and a whole world to win! Vote Linux, the Free person’s choice!!!

I was from the very start a power user and mingled with all things out of curiosity and tried to make the computer give the impression that it was MY computer. Then every 6 months my computer wanted a repair… :)

I slowly started on my own learning lots of stuff and never complained about anything.

2 years ago I bought a laptop which is in what I am typing on right now that came with Windows Vista. I was very enthusiastic at the start cause of all that eye candy and stuff like that but over those 2 years I got literally SICK of the slow-as-nails stupid and processor power-consuming thing that is called Windows Vista. Notice that my computer was full of software and I never bought a single program ( so one could say I was a life-long pirate as well :-))

My uncle, a computer teacher had some demo discs of Ubuntu 5.10(yea it’s really old) and I was seeing them 2 times a week until 2 weeks ago I had the nerve to try a new OS only because of how windows really sucked for me. At first I didn’t even know what Linux is..

But slowly I started researching and reading articles and other stuff and got my computer up and running Ubuntu 9.10

I have been using it for two weeks and I have to say I am VERY, VERY pleased with it because it is secure free and overall FAST. It gets the job done and I have been able to find replacement FREE open-source software for all my previously used applications. If in the worst occasion I cant find replacement software I use WINE. Simple. When it started all of my hardware was running out of the box so no problems here!

@All of those who complain about Linux being not user friendly or even the can’t do things with Linux and that Windows is better than Linux I have to say that you are LAZY corpses just sitting there in front of your screen not thinking.

Linux is for people than don’t mind a challenge, for people that can dirty their elbows a little and for people who love their computer.

If you are not one of these people please go back to your “I paid for this and I will demand your freaking technical assistance NOW” OS that is called Windows.

P.S. I was born and raised in Cyprus and in my 15 years I know more English than somebodies in here :P

please tell me how do i solve this problem

To open a console aka terminal:
In MY top panel (that is, the strip across the top of the screen with buttons, menus, and a clock), I select
Applications –>Accessories –>Terminal (or Root Terminal)
(there will always be more than one way, sometimes 10 ways, to open a terminal)

That will open a lil screen with a prompt. The prompt is built with your username (aka usr) @ network name. You set up all that info when you originally installed your distro.
MY prompt looks like this:
nrc3@LORAXNETWORK:~$

When a tutorial or forum instructs you to “add this” or “type that”, it means:
open a terminal,
type each of these commands, one-by-one, hitting [Enter] after each one. Don’t try to add code aka commands without a prompt.

Be mindful of your directory (“folder” in winderz lingo), as a mistake in directory will cause headaches and lead nowhere. A directory is, oh, anything, like:
/home/user/Desktop
Remember, wherever you see “/user/”, regarding commands and directories, IT IMPLIES THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR USER NAME GOES THERE.
For example, the file path to MY Desktop is:
/home/nrc3/Desktop/
A directory aka folder on my Desktop, full of mp3’s, named Neal’s Music, looks like this:
/home/nrc3/Desktop/Neal’s Music/

In my terminal, my Desktop prompt looks like this:
nrc3@LORAXNETWORK:~/Desktop$

Let me explain it this way, when I open a terminal, my prompt is:
nrc3@LORAXNETWORK:~$
But when I need to make sure that I am in the proper directory, say I’m working on a tarball on my Desktop, I will add:
cd Desktop,
which causes the terminal to focus on the Desktop directory, and gives me the prompt:
nrc3@LORAXNETWORK:~/Desktop$
Got it?

If I then need to change directories, I use the command:
cd
to change directories. cd by itself will give you your basic user prompt back. If I need to go to the /home/ directory, I type:
cd /home
which puts me in that directory, and my prompt looks like this:
nrc3@LORAXNETWORK:/home$

Simple? Sure. Simple enough. It’s only different from what you are accustomed to. DO NOT give up. You need your community and we need you!
Also, please sign up at LinuxQuestions.org
Go ther and you WILL learn this!!!

Good Luck!