I am trying to install several packages to add extensions to my Clear Linux system. I downloaded the source and unpacked them. You can see from the attached screenshot that I am getting nowhere when I try to compile them. I don't understand what the errors mean. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure this is easy for a lot of you, but I'd appreciate any help.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the screen shot revealing the specific errors.
I expect someone like Phillip Walden would know
better than yours truly, but I see two or three
distinguishable errors.
1.) mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master $ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I suspect this happened because the directory
you were currently working in
mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master
doesn't contain a file named
configure
You can see this is so in the output of the
previous command
$ ls
2.) mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master $ make install
Makefile:5: ../common/Makefile.common: No such file or directory
It would appear to me that the
install:
target (line) in
Makefile
may ultimately refer to a file called
../common/Makefile.common
which doesn't exist.
I suspect
mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master $ make
Makefile:5: ../common/Makefile.common: No such file or directory
fails with the same error for the same reason.
3.) mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master $ makefile
makefile: command not found
I suspect this happened because the directory
you were currently working in
mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master
doesn't contain a file called
makefile
You can see this is so in the output of the
earlier command
$ ls
but there is a
Makefile
that I expect
mkaiman@discovery~/Downloads/dash-to-dock-master $ make
uses by default.
Humble suggestions
1.) Check out what the 5th line of
Makefile
is trying to do when it fails with
../common/Makefile.common: No such file or directory
Maybe it'll help
explain the error and
ultimately fix it.
2.) Use the
find .. | egrep common
command to look for
../common/Makefile.common
If you don't find it, I'd wonder if maybe
Clear Linux depends on more files being
installed for your packages, like
../common/Makefile.common
3.) Consider watching a few cool videos on
debugging makefiles, like some at
4.) I wonder if Clear Linux automatically
installs dependencies, like other Linux
distros.
If not, and you'd be open to testing another
Linux distribution, maybe you could save
yourself some admin time in the long run.
I hope that helps, or was at least interesting,
Kingsley
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On 07/22/2021 01:00, Mark Kaiman wrote:
I am trying to install several packages to add extensions to my Clear Linux system. I downloaded the source and unpacked them. You can see from the attached screenshot that I am getting nowhere when I try to compile them. I don't understand what the errors mean. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure this is easy for a lot of you, but I'd appreciate any help.
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Hi;
I haven’t done a lot of compiling from source but I think I know what the problem is. The small apps and text files (scripts) that you want are installed into a different directory than where you are. So you have find out where the files (.config, make, etc.) are, and add the to your path. You can do this either temporarily or permanently.
Do so permanently by editing the .bash_profile file to include the directory where the unpacked applications and scripts are stored. If you want to do it temporarily, use the export command (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) or I think you use the env command for Fedora and other RPM-based distros. But that only lasts for the duration of that shell session.
Google it or use DuckDuckGo (open-source search engine that respects privacy concerns) to find the specific information you need about command syntax.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
John Weintraub (Linux+/LPIC-1)
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I am trying to install several packages to add extensions to my Clear Linux system. I downloaded the source and unpacked them. You can see from the attached screenshot that I am getting nowhere when I try to compile them. I don’t understand what the errors mean. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? I’m sure this is easy for a lot of you, but I’d appreciate any help._______________________________________________
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You need to run the configure command first. It goes something like this:
./configure
make
make install
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Whoops! Looks like you already did that. Sorry for not looking closely enough.
Where did you get that particular source package?
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It is generally a bad idea to download git repos as zip files, lots of things break in unpredictable ways. If there are release snapshots, those generally work, or use git clone $url to fetch the project sources.
It’s also worth checking the project documentation for how to build, as there are sometimes advanced options enabled via switches, environment variables, or editing config files which are not immediately obvious just looking at the file names.
All that said, there is only one “make-like” file in that project (no configure, no CMakeLists.txt, or any of the other telltale buildsystem files). That is Makefile, and is (by convention) a GNU-Make compatible file. (It also is mentioned in the project homepage that make is the program for building this). When I check the dash-to-dock git repo out and call make on the master branch, it compiles successfully. If this is still something you wish to try using, I would suggest doing a clean checkout and trying again.
If that doesn’t work, please explain where you got the download, and include your terminal scrollback as a gist so we can see exactly what you ran.