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Problem with the ./configure command

Mart -  
zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   -
Hello,

So here I am trying to install a program compressed in .gz
but I can't run ./configure, it tells me:
"bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"

So if someone could help me, I would really appreciate it, thanks in advance
MartVv

5 answers

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    mamiemando Posted messages 33228 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   7 944
     
    To begin with, check that you cannot install this program directly via your package manager. If this doesn't ring a bell, let us know which program it is and which Linux distribution you are using.

    Next, the command "./configure" means to execute the (executable) file "configure" located in the current directory. This is probably not the case here. You probably need to do a cd to position yourself in this directory. 

    cd /the/path/to/the/right/directory


    A link to help you:
    http://www.mistra.fr/tutoriel-linux-compiler.html#h3-compiler-une-application-ou-une-librairie

    Typically, it would look like this (changing toto to what it needs to be): 

    tar xzvf toto.tgz cd toto ./configure make sudo make install


    Good luck
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  2. zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   6 501
     
    Hello,

    Dumb question, have you at least decompressed the ".gz" archive?

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  3. Mart
     
    First, thank you for your responses.

    Well, I use Ubuntu and I'm trying to install Floola (software to replace iTunes) which is not in the Ubuntu package.

    And finally, yes, I decompressed them.

    Thank you in advance for your responses.
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  4. Mart
     
    and I think there is a syntax error in my command line:

    martvv@martvv-M50Vn:~/Downloads/Floola-linux$ ./configure
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  6. zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   6 501
     
    Re-

    There's nothing to compile, it's ready to use. Here's the content of the folder after extraction: 

    $ ls -lh total 28M -rwxr-xr-x 1 jp jp 28M 2011-12-26 14:22 Floola* drwxr-xr-x 2 jp jp 480 2012-02-11 23:34 Floola Libs/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 jp jp 779 2007-08-02 15:59 Readme.txt

    You just need to run it from the directory: 
    ./Floola

    ;-))

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