install softwares from its sourcecode
By rootnet47
@rootnet47 (62)
India
May 13, 2011 4:56pm CST
Hi! I'm new to Linux, & I'm using ubuntu 10.10 . I downloaded source code utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz & I've tried following commands to install the package as instructed in linuxforums,
tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
then move to the dir
./configure
but after hitting enter it returns ./configure no such file.
I've tried following steps with other source codes (vlc, aircrack-ng, etc)
tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
hen move to the dir
./configure
make
make install
but never got a good result.
Can anybody instruct me the proper way of installation.
2 responses
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
13 May 11
I believe you are missing a cd in their as you need to change to that Directory before you can actually do the make install command but that is just a guess. I haven't done an source install in about 2 years now and well don't even really use my Ubuntu laptop anymore really as I am doing most if not all of my work on my iMac.
@rootnet47 (62)
• India
14 May 11
yes, I missed to put cd command to move to a particular dir on the script, but I previously install other packages like intltool-0.41.1.tar.gz etc, those are installed successfully, but I'm not able to figure out the mater with utorrent.
@gksmartkid (142)
• India
21 May 11
Perhaps you can check out the software center for the torrent downloading programs in linux. Moreover, consider upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). It is wonderful!
