install-from-source refers to one method of installing software packages on Ubuntu without using the Software Centre. It is generally not the recommended way of installing software.
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How to build libHaru and the examples which are included
I downloaded libHaru from http://libharu.org/. libHaru is a opensource pdf creator. Now in the INSTALL file says I only have to run ./configure && make && make install. When I run this ...
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I am not able to see anything on my Ubuntu Home screen
I had installed Ubuntu inside Windows 7 few days back it worked properly now its not working well. I am not able to see anything on my ubuntu home screen. I am not even able to find a shutdown ...
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package not in your current software resources
I installed 12.04 on my old mac power PC and when I go to ubuntu software center to install chromium, dropbox and other softwares. I get this error. I am not sure how to fix it.
I tried playing ...
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Does installed from source software get overwritten by automatic updates?
As an example I've installed libcurl v7.30 from source, using their tutorial:
./configure --disable-ipv6 --enable-ares
make
make install
I've had libcurl installed from the official repository ...
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compiling device driver [closed]
`/*
* USB Skeleton driver - 2.2
*
* Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg@kroah.com)
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the ...
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“cannot determine current directory” while building Haskell in 13.04
I'm trying to install the Haskell Platform on Raring. Since there's no apt package, I've downloaded the GHC 7.4.2 binary x86_64 distribution (which is a prerequisite), and I am trying to run ...
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Dansguardian error on compilation from source
./configure ( compilation is done)
make command giving error below
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/dansguardian-2.12.0.4-all_patch/configs'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: ...
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Installing Updates from untrusted packeges [duplicate]
Help me here I can't update now, but on terminal I can download this untrusted thingy.
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How to configure Qjoypad?
I followed the steps on this page but when I run make it gives me this error:
/usr/bin/ld: keycode.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XKeycodeToKeysym'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'XKeycodeToKeysym' is defined ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 configure: command not found
I've tried to install a number of different programs from .tar.gz files, and every time I try the configure command, it fails. I have been following the README files to apply the command only when ...
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How can I install PIKLAB on 12.04?
I'm trying to install PIKLAB IDE for Microchip PIC controllers programming but got stuck at an error message as below:
-- Could NOT find Threads (missing: Threads_FOUND)
CMake Error at ...
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“make install” errors
I am trying to install vmd on my ubuntu but " make install" is giving these errors. Can someone help? These are the errors. Thanks for the helps.
if [ ! -d "/usr/local/lib/vmd" ]; then \
...
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Getting configure command of php
I am using an ubutnu OS, I have installed LAMP stack using "tasksel", I am not able to find the "Configure Command" while I am going through phpinfo. But , in the same OS I am able to see the ...
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Solve error file compiling PHP configure: error: libXpm.(a|so) not found
I got an error while compiling PHP, I am listing the details below.
Error configure error libxpm.(a so) not found
I have checked with dpkg -L libxpm-dev. it is showing the needed file is in the ...
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How to find dependencies of php
I need to install LAMP in my home directory. I wish to install from source. It is so difficult to find out dependency of PHP manually, so, is there any easy way to do it. I hope build-depends will ...
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Where is the python library installed?
When I try to do ./configure over AWN v0.4 I get this error:
configure: error: in `/home/desktop/Software/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0':
configure: error:
Could not link test program to Python. ...
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How to install TestDisk from source
I have just come downloading a software called testdisk-6.14-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2. Therefore I'm wondering how to deal with the installation.
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I have a problem installing activestate python instead of the default. How can I fix it? Syntax error: “)” unexpected
I am getting this error when trying to run the ./install.sh for ActivePython. How can I correct this?
cd /tmp
wget ...
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Scanalyze install
I am trying to install Scanalyze.
I downloaded the source code, and in the compilation instructions for Ubuntu, he has mentioned that for later versions of gcc (mine is 4+), there is a separate ...
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Compiling Meshlab
I am trying to install Meshlab as per the documentation. I installed all the dependencies and followed the steps. But am having trouble with certain steps here.
In order to successfully compile a ...
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Building Ubuntu server from source on very old hardware?
I'd like to build Ubuntu LTS 12.04 from source (kernel+daemons) on very old hardware. The hardware I'm on is i486 cpu on a pc104 single board computer. Most live cd's have trouble getting further than ...
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How to install a Virgo FTP on ubuntu 12.10 on Session fallback desktop
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with session fallback desktop and really very much confused about how to install a software on Ubuntu. Please clarify few issue. I want to install virgoFTP . I download it from ...
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Patch, compile and run Wine without installing
I'm not familiar with compiling software from source.
I would like to test a patched version of Wine following this procedure.
I already have Wine installed and do not wish to modify it. I just want ...
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nsd DNS server for Ubuntu - how to “maintain” software that comes as source only in production?
Trying apt-get update && apt-cache search dns nsd I can see that 12.04 doesn't come with a binary package for nsd. Its advantages and its maturity, however, made me consider it in the first ...
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How to install arduino-1.0.3-linux32.tgz?
Can't ./configure after I tar'ed Linux version from here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
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problems installing Stata12 on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm trying to install Stata12 on Ubuntu 12.10.
I stored the directory stata12 64bit in /usr/local and then I followed this procedure:
sudo apt-get install libgtksourceview-3.0-common
sudo ln -s ...
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Strategies for local source build environment and deb package server for multiple Ubuntu releases?
I won't be able to check responses for a while, but I thought I'd jot this down, now that I thought of it. Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but here goes:
I'm considering buying ...
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How can I install Celtx 2.9.7 properly on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
I am new to Ubuntu and Linux and I want to install and use the newest version of the screenwriting software Celtx on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
After trying ...
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How do I install the manpage from node.js' source tarball?
I have downloaded node.js tarball from its website, and now I would like install the manpage that comes with it so that I can view it by typing:
man nodejs
How can I do this?
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Installing jdevstudio in Ubuntu
I'm trying to install jdevstudio from Oracle on Ubuntu 12.10. I have downloaded a file with .bin extension. Unfortunately neither of the two provided methods (using terminal or setting the permission) ...
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Installing swagger-ui
I'd like to use Swagger, the api-documentation tool on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. On a Windows machine I just open the index.html file with Firefox and put in the address that I want the swagger-ui to ...
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No acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
I want to install one package named speech_tools-2.1-release.tar.gz. After I run command ./configure in this package, it show me a message:
Configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
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How can we create a package for launchpad so people can download it from synaptic?
I suppose you would need to be approved or something but I am not interested in that side of things at the moment. Just I would like to know the technical aspect of packaging.
It would be great to be ...
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How do I build GNU scientific library from source?
I am trying to install the GNU scientific library on Ubuntu 12.04. I've downloaded gsl-1.15 from the nearest GNU mirror (in my case this one). I ran the building steps listed on the INSTALL file:
$ ...
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Installing driver for Atheros AR8131
I am having the same trouble as others getting my Atheros AR8131 Ethernet card recognised by Ubuntu 12.10 on my new HP Pavillion P7-1449 PC. I found the same question where the answer suggested the ...
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How to install a program published as a tar.gz file?
I'm trying to download and install software for my Ubuntu Linux machine. I've downloaded it by wget or the download link and so I get this tar.gz file. After that, I extracted it and saved it to my ...
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Error installing ath9k Wireless Driver for Ubuntu 12.10
I'm following the instructions of this external link.
When I enter sudo make install }}} I get the following error:
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/build ...
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install qutecom cannot find msg722.so file, how to solve the problem?
I build the qutecom-3.0 on ubuntu 11.04, during install process, It shows:
CMake Error at /home/student/qutecom-3.0/build/qutecom/src/presentation/qt/cmake_install.cmake:122 (FILE):
file INSTALL ...
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Free Software for Billing (Colombia)
English
I'm looking for a billing application (also inventories, shopping, clients, providers, accounts, etc) for small businesses. The software should adapt with Colombia's necessities. I searched ...
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error lunching update manager
I get following error when lunching update manager
E:Malformed line 70 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
can you help me ?
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install CMake occurs a error, how to deal with it?
I am installing CMake in ubuntu, after did the last step "make install", This is the result:
-- Install configuration:""
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:36 (FILE):
file cannot create directory: ...
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How to circumvent full system update to install just 'build-essentials'?
After I install a fresh copy of Ubuntu (version 12.04), I need to install build-essentials. To do so, in the terminal I have to run this first:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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Help with error: ‘struct sockaddr_storage’ has no member named ‘s_addr’
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my new machine, and I'm trying to install Ushare from the source from the website. I would just install it through the terminal using 'sudo apt-get install ushare' but ...
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Building LMMS: “Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!”
I tried to build Linux MultiMedia studio from the source of the SourceForge git:// repository under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32b:
git clone git://lmms.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lmms/lmms
cd lmms
git ...
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installing program file
I am trying to install openssn on Ubuntu 12.04. I have extracted the file, and when I type cd openssn then sudo make in a terminal I get this:
main.cpp:32:17: fatal error: SDL.h: No such file or ...
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Manually installing ia32-libs-multiarch on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
Basically, I manually downloaded ia32-libs-multiarch from packages.ubuntu.com and it seems the version should be compatible with my 64bit 12.10 distribution. If I do it from the console, I get a ...
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Build .deb package from source, without installing it
Suppose I have an installer program or source tarball for some program I want to install. (There is no Debian package available.) First I want to create a .deb package out of it, in order to be able ...
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How to install *.tar.gz? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?
I have a software that I want to install in my PC. It is a *.tar.gz file. Can anyone tell me how to install it? I can ...
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How do I compile ndiswrapper?
I have been working for a good 2 days now trying every forum post I could find when it comes to ndiswrapper.
I can get it installed but get the error module ndiswrapper not found keeps coming up. In ...
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THIS .. doesnt work: install per terminal with prefix
There's a wiki to install Unity lens named unity-bliss.
First download the latest lens package from the project launchpad page (by clicking on the green button to the right).
Move this package to ...
