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proplem with ./configure please help

Asked by konig

i try to install nmap tool and i should type
bzip2 -cd nmap-4.65.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
cd nmap-4.65
./configure
make
su root
make install

when i type ./configure
i get this
checking build system type... /bin/bash: ./config.guess: No such file or directory
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

i need help please

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Albert Damen (albrt) said : 		#1

You can find config.guess in the package autotools-dev. You can install it from synaptic or with sudo apt-get install autotools-dev in a terminal window.
If ./configure still complains after you installed autotools-dev, you will need to manually copy the file config.guess from /usr/share/misc/config.guess into your working directory.
You will probably also need to copy /usr/share/misc/config.sub from the same package.

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konig (coco-for-uu) said : 		#2

i installed autotools- dev successfully and make the step ./configure then make and then i have to type su root ,i entered the passward and get this
micooo@micooo-desktop:~/Desktop/nmap-4.65$ su root
Password:
su: Authentication failure
please help

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Best Albert Damen (albrt) said : 		#3

Hi konig,

in Ubuntu we don't use su root. Instead we use sudo.
I guess after make you need to do make install, which will require root privileges.
You can do that with:

$ sudo make install.

sudo will ask for your own password. You can type sudo before any command, to perform that command as root.

Regards,
Albert

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konig (coco-for-uu) said : 		#4

:) NMAP SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED
thank you very much for your great help Albert Damen

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konig (coco-for-uu) said : 		#5

Thanks Albert Damen, that solved my question.