What does ./configure do? Why make then make install? How does it know where libs are? ( they are all there and loaded but it cant find them.) Why need libs if compiler is supposed to compile?
When you install software with make install or sudo make install, different files are placed in different directories. Executables that provide commands the user is intended to run usually go in a bin directory, libraries usually go in a lib directory, manual pages usually go in a man directory, and so forth. When you run ./configure, the --prefix option lets you specify where those ...
The 'configure' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains code that will "patch" and localize the source distribution so that it will compile and load on your local Linux system. Sometimes configure is put on your disk without the execute bit set, so the configuration ...
Run the command it tells you to sudo dpkg --configure -a and it should be able to correct itself. If it doesn't try running sudo apt-get install -f (to fix broken packages) and then try running sudo dpkg --configure -a again. Just make sure you have internet access available so that you can download any dependencies.
I am attempting to compile the program Goozzee, which seems the only program of its niche type (personal desktop knowledge base using topic maps), so I'm pretty invested in getting it going. The...
Update Error: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem Ask Question Asked 5 years, 5 months ago Modified 1 year, 10 months ago
It completely depends on the configure script. If the configure script was generated by autoconf, then the "correct" way to ensure that /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include are used in the build is to use CONFIG_SITE.
I would like ./configure to link to a library and some include files. My library is stored in /home/foo/sw/lib/ and my files are stored in /home/foo/sw/include. ./configure --help throws out the
4 ./configure runs a script named "configure" in the current directory. make runs the program "make" in your path, and make install runs it again with the argument "install". Generally, the "configure" script was generated by a collection of programs known as "autotools".
I'm trying to install a Debian package from source (via git). I downloaded the package, changed to the package’s directory and ran ./configure command but it returned bash: ./configure: No such fil...
