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Questions about configure scripts

A Configure script is an executable script used when installing programs from source. It will check for the presence of the necessary tools and libraries on the target computer and generate a Makefile which is then used to compile the source code.

Configure scripts are usually named configure and written for the bourne shell but they could in principle be written in any scripting language.

For questions related to configuration of Ubuntu software use the configuration tag.

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What does --prefix do exactly when used in ./configure?

So I just had a simple question that's probably going to make me look dumb, but I'm learning When I do a ./configure --prefix/usr/bin/ What is the prefix doing ? Is this just installing the package into that location And can a reply give more of…
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How to fix "PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found" error?

I have Ubuntu 13.10 32 bit system. Recently when I try to to compile by running ./autogen.sh and ./configure I get PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found error. I have libtool installed. I have three aclocal files in usr/share/ like alocal,…
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Installing Toolchain

I'm trying to install a toolchain in Ubuntu 18.04 to compile a custom firmware for my router. The README states to run ./configure but when I do so it comes back with: configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in config…
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configure: error: Could not determine kernel version

I want to compile ocfs2, but, when i configure the compile environment, i meet those problems, can anyone help? root@ubuntu:/home/dingjia/ocfs2-1.4.10# ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type...…
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GPAC "cannot create config file"

I'm trying to play a file using GPAC using the command MP4Client /path/to/file.mkv and I get these errors: GPAC config file .gpacrc not found in /home/sth - creating new file [Core] default modules not found Cannot create config file .gpacrc in…
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Installing packages in Ubuntu 14.04.2.LTS

I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04.2.LTS. When I came to load and compile OpenFOAM-2.4.0 it says cmake, flex, bison, qt4 and OpenMPI are not installed.Today I downloaded those files and are in my home directory.So question is how do I compile those or get…
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. configure issue

I tried to run the below command in order to procede to install a program: $ . configure but after few second the Ubuntu terminal close, without any message. What happened? Thanks for your time about my issue
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