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I need csh for installing a package but I am not root user... I want to install it for my user.

I installed csh_20070713.orig.tar.gz, csh_20070713.diff.gz and csh_20070713-2ubuntu1.dsc But there is not dpkg-source command...

then I did following procedure:

untar *.tar.gz
mv csh_20070713.orig csh_20070713
mkdir csh_20070713/debian
gunzip csh_20070713.diff.gz
patch -p0 < csh_20070713.diff
chmod +x csh_20070713/debian/rules

I do not know what should I do next! I used make and make install command in csh_20070713 directory and also debian directory but nothing happened...

Braiam
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user288566
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    Hi! What do you mean with "nothing happened"? – Lucio Jun 05 '14 at 03:16
  • when I used make file, the result is: *** missing seperator. Stop – user288566 Jun 05 '14 at 03:47
  • The makefile for csh appears to use a (BSD-style?) .if ... .endif construct which doesn't seem to be supported by GNU make - you may have better luck building tcsh instead. Also, try apt-get source tcsh (which doesn't need sudo) - if the source repositories are enabled that will be easier than manually downloading an patching. Then ./configure --prefix=$HOME and make install in the patched source directory. You may need to make a symlink from $HOME/bin/tcsh to csh. – steeldriver Jun 05 '14 at 04:24

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It appears that the Makefile provided with the csh source package uses some (possibly BSD-derived) features that are not supported by GNU make, which make building it on an Ubuntu system challenging. An easier alternative is probably to build the tcsh package

DESCRIPTION
       tcsh  is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX
       C shell, csh(1).

If your system's administrator has enabled the necessary source repositories, it may be possible for you to download and patch the source automatically using

apt-get source tcsh

which shouldn't require sudo as it will download into to the current directory. If that's not possible, then the source for the tcsh package should be available via git from git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/tcsh.git

Once you have the patched source, enter the top-level directory and configure it to build in your home directory e.g.

./configure --prefix=$HOME

This will cause the tcsh binary to be installed in $HOME/bin, which is likely already in your PATH. You can specify a sub-directory under $HOME if you prefer, or anywhere else that you have write and execute permissions, but you will need to make sure that directory is also added to your PATH. If that all goes well, then

make install

Finally, you may need to create a symbolic link from tcsh to csh in order for other programs to find it as the default csh implementation e.g. assuming you installed to $HOME/bin

ln -s tcsh ~/bin/csh
steeldriver
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I noticed some things about what you did. There is an easier way to get this installed. you can simply install csh by going to your terminal. Then type sudo apt-get install csh To make your csh a default option on boot type in a terminal which csh.

To enter into csh terminal just go to the regular terminal and input csh.

From a how to web site.

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