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./configure WTF is it

Asked by Dakunesu

ive been running into a issue time and time again and i am tired of it.
ive downloaded kiba-dock and CrystalSpace3d among other programs that say to run this

 ./configure
 make
 sudo make install

which i have tried to no succsess because it says that it doesnt exist.

WTF is it, there are really cool programs that i want to use and get the latest of them but im stuck with the last one someone packaged which is usually out of date

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Joel Goguen (jgoguen) said : 		#1

./configure is used to configure a program for compiling on your system. Before you run './configure' you need to enter the directory. Typically, you would do something like this:

tar zxf package-1.0.1.tgz
cd package-1.0.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

Also, it may not work if you don't have build dependencies installed. A good start is to run the command 'sudo apt-get install build-essential' if you haven't already done so. Other dependencies may be required, but the configure script should tell you which ones are missing. Search in Synaptic for them and install the package with '-dev' at the end.

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Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#2

Compiling Crystal Space is not so-easy task. You will need to get a lot of -dev packages, and it can be troublesome (for example you need a specific version of libode, not the newest one). Moreover it takes about an hour on a 3GHz machine...

You may want to instead get a ready package, not a very well prepared version 1.0 from universe repository: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/games/crystalspace (using synaptic).

Or a somewhat newer 1.1 from the repository of makers of the blender2cs:
http://b2cs.delcorp.org/index.php/Debian_Packages (add those to software sources).

Probably someone will prepare a package for the 1.2 version some time too.

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Dakunesu (ultimate100101) said : 		#3

well thanks for your support but i have now idea what its doing now. ill check out the CS .debs later, ive just about had enough of ubuntu. the only thing really keeping my useing it is the securiy speed and GFX. thats it.