I've had redhat linux 9 installed for a little over 4 months now, and i have been playing with it on and off. But im having programs running the programs i install, such as xscreensaver/xplanet/3ddesktop/Nvidia drivers all of which reqiured ./configuring and compiling i've followed the readme's and online instructions to the letter but it always ends up not working (ex. errors when i attempt to run the program due to incorrect paths, or i am just plain stupid cuase i cant even run the program).
whenever im installing something im always using the root account, and compiling from /root/programnamehere path. am i doin somethin wrong?
any help is greatly appreciated