Questions related to compiling software, normally using the "make" command.
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Launchpad failed to build after “quickly submitubuntu” [closed]
I uploaded my python project by running "quickly submitubuntu", but it failed to build on Launchpad. "quickly submitubuntu" is supposed to add package dependencies automatically, but the error log ...
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How do I recompile X.org from git?
I am having some problems with wheelmouse and mouse movement at the same time on ubuntu 12.04 and I found that the problem has been solved here:
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How do I compile and install gnome-tweak-tool from its git repository?
How I install the Gnome tweak tool from git://git.gnome.org/gnome-tweak-tool?
I have install the Synaptic
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How to build PyQt for Deadsnakes Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 10.04?
I am trying to configure Python2.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 as an alternative package.
I got the Deadsnakes PPA
I set up pip and virtualenv
Now, I am trying to build PyQt (PySide seems to have similar ...
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“No such file or directory” error when trying to install pcre
am using ubuntu 12.04 and am trying to install pcre however I encountered an error message when I tried to use the command:
sudo make after the ./configure command.
I have this error message
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How to install a brcm80211 kernel module from source?
I need to install brcm80211 module for wifi in my dell N4010 model. Iam using linux kernel3.2. During kernel installation i have not checked the brcm80211.
How to configure the make file inside the ...
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Why am I getting autoconf AC_* macro errors?
I am trying to build this language modelling toolkit but I run into this problem when trying to get it set up. I am trying to understand what the error means, and what I should do to fix it, I dont ...
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How to run a .pyc (compiled python) file?
Whenever I compile a python file, I get a *.pyc file. When I try to run that, I get a message saying there is no program for running them. When I search for a program online via that option, it says ...
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What should I do about this error?
jonquil@jonquil-Satellite-L755D:~/Downloads/akonadi-googledata-1.2.0/build$ cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C ...
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How do I get past this dependency?
I'm trying to install libgcal, and when I run ./configure I get the following error:
configure: error: "* libxml2 not found! You need it to build Library gcalendar. *"
I installed libxml2 from the ...
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Compiling a software with GTK which has no configuration script
I bumped into green, a PDF viewer for the Framebuffer. I would like to compile it, but I am not having much success, although I have installed all the dependencies...
The error I am getting is:
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Launchpad fails to build a package for my PPA
I'm trying to build a package on Launchpad's Debian build system for PPAs but I'm having some issues with a certain package.
The package I'm trying to build (zorin-xwinwrap) contains a source C file ...
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How do I create a deb for GCC 4.7?
I'm sorry but I have tried the tutorials on various websites. Nothing, so far, has worked. I'm using Ubuntu Maverick 10.10. I've downloaded, compiled and installed GCC 4.7.0. Now I want to make a .deb ...
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I have problems with compiling powertop on Ubuntu Precise
I tried to compile the latest release of powertop from github.
I get some errors and I dont know what to do to fix this.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/powertop/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory ...
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Help do I install the Ralink RT3070 wireless driver?
I bought an AZTECH WL562USB wireless adapter and am stuck trying to install the driver.
The driver file I downloaded is a BZ2, called
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How can I create a temporary sandbox to compile from source?
I want to follow the steps found here in order to run League of Legends under Ubuntu. According to the guide, I have to compile wine from source because it needs some patches.
Compiling from source ...
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Compiling on the desktop!! no?
so I have compile my first program today, with the help of the "askubuntu's members"..... thanks so much!!! ;)
this is what I have compiled : https://github.com/treeder/logitech_unifier
But now, I ...
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How can I compile a C program file which I created using the Libre Office editor?
I'm new to Linux and I need some help!
I am trying to compile the code taken from this post to the linux-kernel mailing list.
I have pasted the file into Libre Office and saved it as pairing_tool.c ...
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How to I compile uget from source?
I've downloaded uget from its source fourge link. It is a tar.gz file. I have read that i could install a file of this type by extracting its contents and following these steps.
./configure
make
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How to compile a .java file
How can I compile a .java file. What programs will I need and if I need java jdk I need help installing that. I'm very new to ubuntu so any program I need to install I will need a tutorial on how to ...
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How to enable RELRO support?
We have been trying to build a LFS system on 12.04 64-bit. In the configuration stage of glibc, I receive the error
configure: error: linker with -z relro support required
How can I enable the ...
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Error with trying to compile with make.(This also includes a snapshot after doing apt-get update)
This is the error I get:
Fetched 120 kB in 1min 1s (1,937 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://update.yuuguu.com hardy Release: The following signatures couldn't ...
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Compiling C++ inside a folder in Ubuntu 12.04
I have some question about compiling .cpp inside a folder, it says
first.cpp No such file or directory
but when I run it in home it compiles. Any settings I might have left out? Thanks.
Here's ...
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How do i install Broadcom wireless driver after compile a custom kernel?
i have compiled a custom kernel(ck-patchs,ubuntu-patchs) for my netbook, everything workis good, but not wireless, i can't install "Wireless Broadcom STA driver" i got this message :
Desculpe, a ...
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Segment fault error when try to scan host by ettercap
I wanna scan host via ettercap in ubuntu 11.04 but it return following error
Ooops ! This shouldn't happen...
Segmentation Fault...
Please recompile in debug mode, reproduce the bug and send a ...
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Eclipse not creating a binary file when building a simple program
I have a problem with linking and\or running a simple program in my eclipse. I'll try to first give a full description of the setup I'm using, to help identify the problem. Please notice that this is ...
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Install program from tar.bz2 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install a .tar.gz file?
Could someone explain to me in the simplest way possible how to install a program from a .tar.bz2 file? I've looked this up and went ...
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How do I compile and install the latest PiTiVi 0.15.2?
As there's a critical bug in PiTiVi 0.15.1 (version released in Software Center) and I need to finish a project, I tried to install the latest version, 0.15.2. I tried to add the PPA and to compile it ...
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determining what files a package updates / copying software between machines
How do I determine which files comprise an application (built from source, not from a repo), so I can copy it?
I built an application from source, but because the libraries it needed to build were ...
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Is gcc portable between all 64 bit linux machines
I'm doing work remotely by connecting to a Linux terminal with ssh. The machine I'm connecting to is a 64 bit x86 Linux machine. My computer is also 64 bit Ubuntu machine with an x86 processor.
I ...
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File durability in global directories
It seems to me that some files I write to global directories such as /usr are not persistent. Concretely I experience that the installation of some self-compiled software (webkit-qt) to global ...
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“kde-config not found” error while installing kstars from source
I am trying to install kstars from source ,but I got the following error while configuring
./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
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How do I compile & install the newest version of Transmission?
I'm trying to install Transmission 2.51 on Ubuntu 10.04. Compiling the source goes fine, but I can't seem to get it to compile the GUI as well. This is the configure output:
Configuration:
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How to resolve pycuda installation error “/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcuda”?
I am installing pycuda2011.2.2 on ubuntu 11.10, but can't complete it. Cuda is 4.0. When I do:
$ make -j 4
I get this error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcuda
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible ...
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Getting an error when using 'make' command (installing aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04)
I followed these instructions. I edited the common.mak file successfully and when I ran make I get this error:
mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~/aircrack-ng-1.1$ make
make -C src all
make[1]: Entering ...
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What are 'nightly' builds?
When referring to the Ubuntu releases, I've come across something called 'nightly' builds. What do 'nightly' builds mean?
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How to compile C++ source code (“iostream.h not found” error)?
I do not want to discuss about C++ or any programming language!I just want to know what am i doing wrong with linux ubuntu about compiling helloworld.cpp!
I am learning C++ so my steps are:
open ...
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How can I compile a program and update an program already installed
So I have vsftpd 2.3.5 installed (using apt-get) and I want to install vsftpd-ext.
But I have to compile it my self and install.
How can I install it so that it updates the version installed by ...
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How can we install all the necessary dependencies for a package so that we can build it?
well, after i installed freecad on my ubuntu 12.04 with the help of this blog i started asking about compiling and building from source.
So, when we are trying to install a package some times the ...
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How do I install gcc 4.7.0 from source? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to update gcc to the latest version(in this case 4.7) in Ubuntu 10.04?
How do I install tar bz2 and gz files?
I'm new user in ubuntu & I wonder if anyone can ...
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How can I compile imgcnv?
I'd like to compile imgcnv so that I can chop up images for panojs. imgcnv's INSTALL directions are extremely curt:
$ pwd
/home/$USER/src/imgcnv
$ ls
build-imgcnv-cygwin.sh INSTALL matlab ...
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Why can't I run a package installed in “/usr/local/bin”?
After compilation of a package, make install installed the package's files in /usr/local/bin but when I double click on the file inside /bin it doesn't work. I followed all the steps to compile the ...
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How do I compile a Wikipedia lens and install?
I read a tutorial about how to compile and install a Wikipedia lens, but it didn't work.
The tutorial sounds easy - i just copied and pasted to the file that was suppose to edit.
I have tried some ...
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What does libgs10-dev relate to?
As part of an installation process I am instructed to install libgs10-dev, however I cannot find any reference to this package outside of this installation guide ("Hacking the Kinect", Apress, 2012).
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Kernel module compilation fails when installing vmware tools
When I install WMWare tools, I get this error for vmhgfs:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.c:47:28: fatal error: linux/smp_lock.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
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Failed to compile Network Manager 0.9.4
After upgrading to 12.04 I needed to re-compile Network Manager to the version 0.9.4.0 again. However with the version 9.4.0 I faced with the error during compilation with libdns-manager:
$ make
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How do I install the drivers for my HCF Conexant modem?
How do I install drivers for my HCF Conexant modem in Ubuntu 11.10?
Unfortunately Conexant driver is old with no update for new kernel version (upper 2.6)
so I cant install and use my HCF modem.
I ...
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How can I install the latest version of libmtp?
In the latest version of the libmtp library there are fixes for my Android device so I would like to install the latest version I'm just not sure how! I would assume that this would pushed into the ...
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Getting yuvmotionfps working on 64-bit Ubuntu
I'm trying to get yuvmotionfps (http://jcornet.free.fr/linux/yuvmotionfps.html) working on ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.
When I configure it normally I get errors saying "videodev.h not found"
Someone here ...
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