Why this tar.bz2 package does not install?

Question

This is what I've tried:

bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install 7zip
[sudo] password for bapi: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package 7zip
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ cd\
> 
bapi@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libnjb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libnjb
bapi@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install taglib
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package taglib
bapi@ubuntu:~$ GNU
GNU: command not found
bapi@ubuntu:~$ clear

bapi@ubuntu:~$ cd Download
bash: cd: Download: No such file or directory
bapi@ubuntu:~$ cd Downloads
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ cd NetworkManager-0.9.0
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads/NetworkManager-0.9.0$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
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checking Linux Wireless Extensions >= 18... no
configure: error: wireless-tools or libiw development headers >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads/NetworkManager-0.9.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads/NetworkManager-0.9.0$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for bapi: 
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
bapi@ubuntu:~/Downloads/NetworkManager-0.9.0$ 

How can i install it?

Answer 1

The ./configure command checks if you have everything you need in order to proceed to make and sudo make install your application. Check this answer for more information: What does "./configure; make; make install" do?

As you can see at the output of your ./configure command, at the end, it says:

configure: error: wireless-tools or libiw development headers >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional

This means that you have to install the wireless-tools package. Also, try installing the libiw-dev package. Then, try re-configuring by ./configure.

If the above command exits successfully, it will possibly create a file named Makefile under the current directory, which will be run once you run make etc afterwards.