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?
When you run ./configure --prefix= directory, you are indicating that the software should be installed under the directory directory. But this rarely, if ever, places loose files in directory.
4 ./configure runs a script named "configure" in the current directory. make runs the program "make" in your path, and make install runs it again with the argument "install". Generally, the "configure" script was generated by a collection of programs known as "autotools".
Run the command it tells you to sudo dpkg --configure -a and it should be able to correct itself. If it doesn't try running sudo apt-get install -f (to fix broken packages) and then try running sudo dpkg --configure -a again. Just make sure you have internet access available so that you can download any dependencies.
Since the comment provided by erihanse was not listed as an actual solution, and it did work for me, I am formally listing it here. sudo sh -c 'cd /bin && mv -f systemd-sysusers systemd-sysusers.org && ln -s echo systemd-sysusers' link to github post erihanse, whom ever you are, thanks for the assist.
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 "patch" and localize the source distribution so that it will compile and load on your local Linux system. Sometimes configure is put on your disk without the execute bit set, so the configuration ...
I would like ./configure to link to a library and some include files. My library is stored in /home/foo/sw/lib/ and my files are stored in /home/foo/sw/include. ./configure --help throws out the
It completely depends on the configure script. If the configure script was generated by autoconf, then the "correct" way to ensure that /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include are used in the build is to use CONFIG_SITE.
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: No such fil...
