Having trouble with 'make' command. (pertaining to ddrescue)

[ILikeWaffles]

Sorry for the confusion...ddrescue does not come with the package. I had to download it like this...

  download ddrescue wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.8.tar.bz2 # extract the source code tar xjf ddrescue-1.8.tar.bz2

I tried your suggestion and this is what I get...

 root@Microknoppix:~# apt-get install g++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package g

I also did the update and it download 20Mb's of data and still I can't make.

[ILikeWaffles]

Sorry for the code being all in one line. I was using the browser in knoppix and the tags weren't working.

To add to the confusion...I checked the included packages with knoppix and ddrescue is on the list.

I'm travelling right now and can't play around with it, but how do you invoke ddrescue if it's included with knoppix? Just start typing ddrescue in the root command prompt?!

[kl522]

To add to the confusion...I checked the included packages with knoppix and ddrescue is on the list.

... but how do you invoke ddrescue if it's included with knoppix? Just start typing ddrescue in the root command prompt?!

If you use synaptic, you can click on ddrescue package, and select properties. When the properties dialog appears, you select "installed files" tab. Then you will find that essentially there is a command called 'dd_rescue' and there is a man page for 'dd_rescue'.