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?

The 'configure' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains code that will …

Mar 11, 2017 · When you install software with make install or sudo make install, different files are placed in different directories. Executables that provide commands the user is intended to run usually go in …

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I am looking for a step by step instruction to guide me in the ways of installing, configuring and debugging many of the issues new users have when dealing with Wine in Ubuntu. What is the …

Feb 26, 2015 · I'm trying to install a Debian package from source (via git). I downloaded the package, changed to the package’s directory and ran ./configure command but it returned bash: ./configure: …

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Sep 17, 2021 · Note that in most cases it would be unusual to specify that many paths as flags; instead, I would expect to find --with options to tell the configure script where to find various dependencies.