Questions relating to makefiles, (The file that contains the instructions for make)
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How to have Debian packaging generate two packages given an upstream source archive?
I am packaging something for my PPA. The upstream source is a .tar.gz archive which is Makefile-based.
Since this package has a significant amount of architecture-independent data, it would be wise ...
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What does “./configure; make; make install” do?
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?
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Can't make RTL8188CE drivers
I just downloaded the RTL8188CE drivers striaght from Realtek website. I have both build-essentials and linux-generic-headers installed. I go to the top directory of the downloaded driver and run make ...
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How to install Hercules Webcam Deluxe
I am trying to install a Hercules Webcam Deluxe on my Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bits). I followed this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ov51x
Step by step, only changing
wget ...
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How to get missing dependency for make empathy: glib-compile-schemas?
I Downloaded empathy-3.0.1.tar.bz2 to install in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I ran the makefile and I got the error :
configure: error: glib-compile-schemas not found.
How can I fix this problem ? Please ...
