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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Uninstalling application built from source [duplicate]
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If I build a package from source how can I uninstall or remove completely?
I know that Ubuntu has come a long way in helping new users to get used to their linux ...
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What is Ubuntu's Definition of a “Registered Application”?
I've run into this a few times when installing apps from source, and during the occasional hack with update-alternatives. So far, it's only been a minor annoyance (ie, not got in the way of the ...
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Injecting packages installed from source into apt/synaptic
Example:
I build/install SoX myself, as provided Ubuntu package did not include additional audio format libraries that I might use and it's one of the packages I want latest version anyway.
Now I ...
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Free Software for Billing (Colombia)
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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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Google-Earth will not launch
After installing Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64bit I am unable to launch Google Earth.
When I try to launch in terminal I get the following:
pst007x@pst007x-Serval-Professional:~$ cd /opt/google/earth/free
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Why ubuntu sources are different to the originals?
When I do:
wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-5.8p1.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-5.8p1.tar.gz.asc
gpg openssh-5.8p1.tar.gz.asc
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Can someone tell me how to install reaver-wps?
Here is the webpage http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
Can someone help me install it so I can play around with it?
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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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Compiling source into a DEB package
I have always had a problem installing and removing compiled software, so I have decided I would like to build software from source into a .deb package for easier installation/removal.
I would like ...
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Recompile all packages and trigger on updates
I am using Ubuntu on a bespoke router and after seeing the latency drops capable with custom compiling on Gentoo, I would like to recompile all packages with CFLAGS="-march=atom". The guide for this ...
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How to install a software manually?
I have recently learnt how to install programs from the terminal and would like to know the meaning of a few commands that I use to install. For example, I downloaded python 3.2 from source and ...
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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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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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How do I install Inventory Management Software?
I am relatively new to Ubuntu- about a year- and I have still yet to figure out how to install something that is not in the software center, nor have I figured out how to use SPM for files that are ...
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How to build Compiz from source?
Similarly to this question made for Unity, I would like to know what is the correct procedure to build the latest development release of Compiz from source.
In particular, it would be useful to know ...
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Upgrading Evolution from source
As with most people I presume I am running Evolution 2.32.2 inside 11.04 Natty and regardless how annoying the crashes are I prefer it to Thunderbird.
Obviously as soon as 11.10 Oneiric is released ...
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Compiling GTK2 from source
I download and try to compile the source code for GTK2:
sudo apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0
sudo apt-get source libgtk2.0-0
cd gtk+2.0-2.24.6/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
And I get an error:
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Reverting problems caused by checkinstall with gcc build
I recently downloaded the GCC 4.6.2 source in order to play around a bit with C++11. Having been told about checkinstall and its usefulness in installing programs from source, I created a Debian ...
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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 properly Install chromium from zip and make it the default browser?
Since the Chromium PPA is no longer maintained, for those of us preferring to use Chromium over Chrome, we have two options:
Build and Install from Source
Download either 'beta' or daily builds (in ...
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How do I install Clang Version 3 in 10.10?
How would I go about installing version 3 of Clang/LLVM in Ubuntu 10.10? Ubuntu 10.10 installs version 2.8 by default. Version 3 has more extensive/up to date support for C++ and possibly C (I am not ...
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How do I upgrade to the latest Grub 2.00?
According to this link, GRUB 2.00 has just been released. How can one upgrade to this?
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Confusion about git; how to undo?
I wanted to install some source code that was on git. Don't really know what that means ; I've never used git before, but I figured it was time to learn so,
I first installed git.
Next I tried to ...
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How to install the StackExchange Data Dump Viewer?
How do i install the StackExchange Data Dump Viewer ?
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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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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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How to build and compile a bzr branch for testing
When I pull down a bzr branch using
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/<package name>
I get one set of source files. However, when i go
apt-get source <package name>
I get another. The command
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Error when running ./configure on Ubiquity source
I have added a patch to the Ubiquity source and am attempting to build and install the package to test it, however I get the following error when I execute ./configure,
checking for pkg-config... ...
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Docbook errors building Komparator from source
I'm trying to install Komparator4 v0.8 from the terminal of Ubuntu 11.10. I entered this command and work fine:
mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config ...
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Error while installing libX11-devel, package cannot be found
I was installing [HTK speech recognition kit][2] from source. When I gave make all it is giving following error:
(cd HTKLib && make HTKLib.a) \
|| case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; ...
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How to install ffmpeg without root?
I want to install ffmpeg, however it seems that its impossible without root. there are sources, but I have to compile it somehow. how to compile it? I just need ffmpeg "exec".
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Install program from source to chroot env
I have an program source (Remmina) and want to install it to chroot environment. Remmina uses cmake system.
I can install it to chroot using:
sudo make install DESTDIR=mychroot
but this is not ...
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apt-get installation, path directory and running dependency programs
I am very new to Ubuntu and please bear with me if I present a very layman's version of explanation.
My OS: Ubuntu 11.10 server, 64bit version
I need to use three tools samtools, bowtie and tophat. ...
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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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Building SANE from git-source produce backend missmatch on 12.04 even if built locally
It seems to me that with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin it is all but easy to do a proper install of SANE from source (git-repo).
I've found other scanning issues trying to find an answer to this, where the ...
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How do I install tar bz2 and gz files? [duplicate]
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How to install a .tar.gz file?
I Don't know how to install .tar, .bz2 and .gz packages.
For example how do I install this?
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How to add application to application list?
I installed Sublime Text 2 from source.
How can i open text files with sublime?
How can add sublime text to application list?
How can i set up subime the default text editor?
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Permissions problem installing python 2.5.4 from source [closed]
I was trying to install Python 2.5.4 to my ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I downloaded the package from their website Python 2.5.4 Release and I did everything they told me to, but when trying to "execute" the ...
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Ubuntu 12 breaks gcc 4.7 build from source
I use C++11 extensively, so right after installing the new Xubuntu 12.04 LTS release, I went to build gcc from source. After getting the required dependencies using sudo apt-get build-dep ...
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How to convert .tar.gz etc to .deb format using ubucompilator/checkinstall? [duplicate]
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Compiling source into a DEB package
I have some tarballs I want to convert into Debian packages. I usually use gdebi to install .debs but tarballs are difficult for me ...
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How can I install metatracker from source?
Following a question I raised a few weeks back, I would like to install tracker and see how it works with natty. The latest stable release of metatracker is 0.10.10, but unfortunately, only version ...
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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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How do I install mosml?
I need to get Mosml (Moskow sml) on to my system for university. I never installed anything that wasn't in the software manager or using wine (read: my console skills are low).
the package is here: ...
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Installing a tar.bz2
I am trying to install laidout-0.0o91.tar.bz2. its a publishing program for Linux. can you please give me the right terminal instructions to install this on my system.
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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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wireshark installation
i downloaded wireshark-1.8.0rc2.tar.bz2 and copied it to /opt/wireshark directory and uncompressed it by
sudo tar -xjvf wireshark-1.8.0rc2.tar.bz2
then by doing ls in the extracted folder, i found ...
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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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How can I install a tar.bz2 file?
In Ubuntu 10.04, how can one install a tar.bz2 file? I do not know how to do it so are there any one can help me?
ex: package name is : Manager-0.8.3.998.tar.bz2
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Problem running Ubiquity when compiled from source
I've written a patch for Ubiquity that I'm try to test. I've modified the Ubiquity source and successfully run ./configure, make and sudo make install, however I'm having problems running it. When I ...
