Questions tagged [configure]
Questions about configure scripts
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menuconfig and xconfig don't work!
when I try to use make menuconfig I get this:
scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig init/Kconfig:1301: can't open file
"usr/Kconfig" scripts/kconfig/Makefile:24: recipe for target
'menuconfig' failed make[1]:...
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configure wxFreeChart problem on Ubunut 16.04
I have problem with configure
petat@UNUC:~/Plocha/wxFreeChart-master$ ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
...
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cannot configure or make install samtools 0.1.19
I need to install a certain version of samtools (0.1.19) (found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/).
./configure returns "no such file..."
make works correctly (from what I can tell)
sudo ...
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Unable to get Samsung M262x 282x Series printer to work
I have a Samsung M262x 282x Series mono laser printer which has worked perfectly well under Ubuntu versions up to and including 16.04. I recently upgraded to 18.04 and cannot get the printer correctly ...
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“libcurl not found” error message while trying to compile a package
I'm trying to compile a package and right at the ./configure step, I get :
checking for LIBCURL... configure: error: Package requirements (libcurl >= 7.15.4) were not met:
No package 'libcurl' ...
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Can't enable selinux on Ubuntu server 18.04
To start I'm a complete noobie in the matter of SElinux and ubuntu, so my problem is that I tried installing it on ubuntu server 18.04 using this tutorial: https://www.linode.com/docs/quick-answers/...
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openssl and PKG_CONFIG_PATH problems while configuring mongolite package from R
The package "mongolite" won't install itself when trying in RStudio. So I downloaded it from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mongolite/, extracted it in the folder which manages the R packages ...
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Starting Apache…fail error when starting Apache server
XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.
XAMPP: Starting diagnose...
XAMPP: Sorry, I've no idea what's going wrong.
XAMPP: Please contact our forum http://www.apachefriends.org/f/
Last 10 lines of /opt/...
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configure error line 38: sort: No such file or directory
Using configure, ends with the following message:
./configure: line 38: sort: No such file or directory
./configure: line 35: sed: No such file or directory
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Installing BlackHat on Ubuntu 16.04 conflicts with Anaconda
I'm trying to install BlackHat on Ubuntu 16.04.
I have no problem with qd but I can't configure BlackHat.
I got
Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
...
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Gzip freezes during the execution of ./configure command
I am following the instructions of LFS book. I have unzip or untar many packages and install it. But when I do the same process for Gzip package It freezes. Everything is works fine until checking for ...
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Configuring services in Cubic chroot
There's an excellent "using Cubic" guide already posted, but it didn't get into how to configure services in the Cubic chroot. For instance, I would like to pre-configure a RabbitMQ server so that it'...
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unable to configure nor able to uninstall virtual box
I have installed virtual box from app manager and installed it on ubuntu 18. But i was uble to run any program on virtual box since it was giving a error.
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
To ...
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Printer misses file
How to solve the problem specified as:
Printer state message is:
'File usr/lib/cups/backend/usb"not available: no such file or directory'.
Warnings are listed below:
There is a missing ...
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Error while installing Omnet++ on Ubuntu 16.04 : Cannot find osgEarth
I followed the installation guide and installed all the packages mentioned. However, I end up with this error message while running ./configure
checking for osgEarth with CFLAGS=" -fPIC -fno-stack-...
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“git --version” still showing the older version of git
I downloaded git version 2.9.5 to replace my older version which is 2.7.4.
I downloaded the .gz file from: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
Turned out as I tried installing that ...
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How to see the configure command used for the standard repositories [duplicate]
I'm wondering if there is any way to see the configure command used for the packages in the standard repositories? It would be nice to be able to see how a package has been build.
Have a nice day.
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libpng: C compiler cannot create executables
I am trying to call ./configure command. But, it shows this error:
C compiler cannot create executables.
Here the output:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/...
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Can't run CloclWorkMode Tether app in ubuntu
I have been trying for few hours to run CloclWorkMode Tether app for ubuntu.
So I followed the instructions given by the application itself.
My problem is when I try to make node modules before ...
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How to configure apt connection timeout [duplicate]
Sometimes a repository is unresponsive. In such occasions, apt currently hangs for a long time before declaring a time-out (around 1 or 2 minutes, I think).
How can I configure it to time-out after, ...
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“Open in terminal” Keyboard Shortcut not working in 17.10
Keyboard shortcut for "open a terminal here"
I followed the steps mentioned in in the top voted answer in the above link for my Ubuntu 16.04 and my custom keyboard shortcut for "open in ...
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How I configure correctly the keyboard in a laptop?
Every time I start Ubuntu I have to configure the keyboard with the following command in terminal :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
And after that, I run the command setupcon in a ...
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How to get a Wacom Graphire4 to work in 17.10
I have been stuggling to get my elderly Wacom tablet to work properly in Artful. Goggling has yielded plenty of old, but not particularly useful info. So, has anyone been able to get a Wacom Graphire4 ...
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Where to find power option config file(s) for 17.10
Just upgraded to 17.10 because 17.04 hit EOL. Seems really nice except for one small basic thing that baffles me as to why it's hard-coded. The amount of time before the monitor goes blank (for some ...
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./configure --with-boost AND --prefix=$HOME/trentacoollime
I am trying to configure in my /trenta directory which is on a path
$HOME/trentacoollime/trenta
In order to configure in the trenta directory, I have to include option of
--with-boost=../boost.1....
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./configure doesn't generate MAKEFILE when building x11spice
I am trying to enable x11spice in my Docker container, I followed the README but after ./configure, there is no MAKEFILE was generate, so make has an error output saying make: *** No targets specified ...
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Notification-bubbles in 17.10 waiting for user-action to autohide. How to disable that function?
On 17.10 gnome-notfication-bubbles are waiting for user-actions to autohide. In my case while listening music with Clementine - 17.10 needs permanent user-activity to show the latest song-notification....
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sudo dpkg --configure -a [duplicate]
sudo dpkg --configure -a
On typing this command I am not able to resolve the problem
dpkg-was-interrupted-run-sudo-dpkg-configure-a
and the terminal window gets hanged.
On CLTR + Z it says [2]+ ...
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where to stick libraries I install myself?
In building ffmpeg from source, I got the following error to ./configure --with-libcelt:
ERROR: libcelt not found
So I went to http://www.celt-codec.org/downloads/, cloned the repo, and ./autogen.sh;...
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.conf files comment
I am quite new to Ubuntu and I think this might be a stupid question to ask. But I wanted to confirm if # meant comments in Ubuntu .conf files. For instance in the code below:
#send dhcp-client-...
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How to install PAPI on Ubuntu 16.04 and access performace monitoring counters?
I need to count L2 cache misses (my cpu is i5-3550), so I downloaded last PAPI version. I followed instructions contained in the archive to install it (./configure, make and make install) and it ...
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Can't configure hdf5 on Ubuntu
I'm very new to ubuntu and I downloaded hdf5 from the following (using the Linux download, see link below) and I opened up the tar.gz compressed file but haven't been able to use ./configure to get it ...
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Error:cannot find input file: `man/Makefile.in'
I was trying to install hdf4 and then python-hdf4. I am new to both Linux and Python. I need to read the hdf file. I though I need to install pyhdf since http://www.science-emergence.com/Articles/How-...
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Setting up WebServer with my domain name
I just bought my domain name from godaddy. I would like to use my ubuntu server that I've set up. Where do I start on setting and configuring my ubuntu web server? Thanks in advance for all your help.
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Compiling zsh from source has started spewing errors and warnings
I have a simple script written in bash to pull the latest changes in zsh's official github's repo and build it.
I also have another script (still bash) which calls this and other scripts.
Plus, I ...
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Vim from source with Python2.7
I installed vim80 from GitHub with the configuration settings
--with-features=huge
--enable-multibyte
--enable-pythoninterp=yes
--with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/...
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Compling tesseract 4 gives fatal error in ubuntu 16 64 bit
I installed leptonica 1.74 successfully from source. After that, I am trying to compile tesseract 4 from source (tar) on my ubuntu 16.04 64 bit machine.
But I m not able to move forward bcz of this ...
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Compiling glibc-2.17 libraries
I hope you can help me.
For my class project, I'm suppose to identify and fix GHOST vulnerability in GLIBC in Ubuntu 12.04; I did that. However, the instructor doesn't want the fix by just upgrading ...
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What does --prefix do exactly when used in ./configure?
So I just had a simple question that's probably going to make me look dumb, but I'm learning
When I do a
./configure --prefix/usr/bin/
What is the prefix doing ?
Is this just installing the ...
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Installing and Configuring DHCP server on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS from OVH
I rented a VPS from OVH to make a VPN Server on it using SoftEther. Everything works fine when I do this at home on a VirtualBox machine. When I went over to the VPS....I didn't know how to properly ...
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Postinstallation script exit error 10: ucf fails
When trying to install R on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial, I'm stuck because r-base-core can't be configured. I'm using the common manual.
Apparently the postinstallation script fails when ucf is supposed to ...
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How do I get Ubuntu to recognize a newer version of Cogl?
I'm trying to install clutter-1.26.0 as a prerequisite for other things. When I run ./configure it gets held up here:
configure: error: Package requirements (cogl-1.0 >= 1.21.2 cogl-path-1.0 cairo-...
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“Qt 3.x not found please set QT_INCLUDE, QT_LIB, MOC by hand” on my ubuntu14.04
I'm trying to install gmapping package from github https://github.com/nii2121/gmapping/blob/master/docs/Instructions.txt
and after I run
./configure
It turns out to be
No 'CXX' environment ...
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Saving/copy back configurations from Apache, Mysql? Because I want to reinstall Ubuntu 14.04 server.
On my server I have installed Ubuntu 14.04. Bind9, Apache, MySql etc worked fine, until a few month ago I got some problems with mailman. I don't know what happened, but I can't install, remove or ...
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error in making from terminal
I have downloaded rcssserver-15.3.0.tar.gz for soccer simulation
when I run ./configure it says
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane....
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Can't make Clockwordmod Tether on Ubuntu 16.10
I'm trying to install Clockwordmod Tether on my Ubuntu 16.10 laptop in order to facilitate USB tethering with the corresponding app on Google Play.
I've downloaded and extracted the Tether tar file. ...
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trying to run ./configure and ./make for ecos bintuils -
I'm going from Building a toolchain for use with eCos
and I've got to the point where I'm configuring and building the tools for binutils:
./configure --target=arm-elf --prefix=../gnutools -v &&...
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I need help. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have no idea how to fix this
So I've had trouble installing some drivers and updates and this is where the internet has led me, but I can't find a solution to these problems.
When I put insudo dpkg --configure -a
This is the ...
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How can I hide the clock on the Gnome 3 lock screen
I have looked at the dconf/gsettings keys available and cannot find a way to hide the clock on the lock screen.
The clock interferes visually with the background image on my lock screen.
Ubuntu 16....
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How do I install the latest version of nmap from source on Ubuntu?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04, and I am trying to install the latest nmap. I have a C compiler installed.
I ran openssl version and found that this version was installed:
OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
I ...
