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The GNU build system, also known as the Autotools

is a suite of programming tools designed to assist in making source-code packages portable to many Unix-like systems.

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How do I install aclocal?

How can I install aclocal from the autotools bundle in Ubuntu 11.04? I tried to find it to no avail: sudo apt-get install aclocal sudo apt-get install autotools-dev apt-cache search aclocal dpkg -S aclocal
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Installing autotools, autoconf on Ubuntu

I need to install autotools. When I search on the Internet, there are various method given that use commands like ./configure, for example. Please guide me on how to install autoconf, autotools, and related packages on my system. A step by step…
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How do I get the latest automake?

This is very similar to https://askubuntu.com/questions/453660/warning-automake-1-11-is-probably-too-old On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I'm getting the following error message: WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system. You should only need…
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checkinstall asking for version

I have a autoconf/automake/autoeverything project that I'm installing with checkinstall. When I go to install it, I'm shown this This package will be built according to these values: 0 - Maintainer: [ brooks94@foo.com ] 1 - Summary: [ Package…
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Changing default directory for debhelper while packaging (.deb)

I am trying to turn Spamdyke 4.3.1 (download link) into Debian package (.deb). This is pretty easy software to build, no crazy dependencies, just libssl-dev so: apt-get install build-essential devscripts \ debhelper dh-make…
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snapcraft crosscompile

I am on a x86_64-linux-gnu machine and trying to build a snap from source for arm-linux-gnueabihf (Raspberry Pi3) using autotools. I manage to build the snap but after I upload to the store it always says that the supported architecture is:…
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Trying to make a snap for Lollypop Music Player

I am trying to snap Lollypop, my favourite music player. The author has already made a flatpak, but since they don't work on Ubuntu 16.04 by default, I tried to create my snapcraft.yaml. The problem is that during compile time the python path get…
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Compiling Cheese from source, fails to compile

I am trying to install cheese from source, and Im not interested in finding a package, because I have source code changes I should like to apply, if I can get it to compile. I have libtool automake, and autotools-dev installed. When I try to run…
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How make a configure/makefiles from an C file?

Hope this is not a stupid question. But here it goes... Over the last month I have learned Programming in C and Gtk to a point where I have written a small program in C. I would like to make a ubuntu package of my program. The project contains 3…
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GNOME Builder fails to install

GNOME Builder fails to install my Autotools project because it does not prepend sudo to the make install command. How can I force Builder to add sudo?
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Trying to Build and Install apinger

I am running 14.04 server (minimal install) and I am trying to build apinger (https://github.com/Jajcus/apinger). Here is a log of what I get when I run ./autogen.sh: The first couple of lines point to some autoconf lib that seems to not exist on my…
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Why does ./configure not find Qt5? Needed for building phonesim from source

Background: I'm trying to build and install ofono-phonesim from source, on Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64, so I can get HFP to work with Pulseaudio 13.99. I'm doing this because of the following: This answer says to go here, however the package there is…
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Cannot find Clementine toolbar

I'm just starting to use Clementine and I can't find the toolbar. It doesn't show on-screen. How can I make it show itself? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
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configure: error: Package requirements(...) were not met

I am trying to make some tweaks to Unity Greeter. So I fetched the source code from launchpad.net. The package came with no makefile. After a bit of googling, I found they use autotools project structure. When I used automake tool to create the make…
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How do I build Bitcoin from source on Ubuntu 14.04

(Using Autotools) I have downloaded the Bitcoin source from "Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1" When I input the following command ./autogen.sh it produces the following warning: includes' is the old name for 'am_cppflags' (or '*_cppflags'). When I…
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