Gmake command not found in terminal
 

Hi all, I'm rather new at this so pardon if the question is silly.

Been trying to install BitchX (IRC) to Ubuntu 14.04 and the faq from their site left these instructions:

$ wget http://www.bitchx.com/download/ircii...1-final.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz ircii-pana-1.1-final.tar.gz
$ cd BitchX
$ ./configure
$ gmake
$ gmake install_local

This worked fine until I got to gmake - my terminal tells me the command doesn't exist "command not found". Is there a fix for this, or is the command simply called something else now.

Searches of this site didn't yield anything, but if I simply missed it please link me to whatever page would help - thanks!

Welcome to LQ.

'gmake' is "gnu make", which is 'make'.

'gmake' is usually a symlink to make, but :
There is no symlink gmake -> make in the Ubuntu package "make"
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/i386/make/filelist

So you can just type ...
$ make
$ make install_local

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If you really want to use gmake you need to install the bash-completion package.
This package contains but gmake and gnumake among many many other commands.
jdk

Thank you, although when I tried this I simply recieved error 127.
Will look into it more soon, perhaps I need to clean it off and restart the instalation.

OK, I don't think you can build the "year 2003 version"
of ircii / BitchX on Ubuntu 14.04.

There is a "contemporary version" for Fedora,
included the upcoming Fedora 21 (release Dec 2014.)
Source package http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedo...6.fc21.src.rpm

If you tell which Ubuntu 14.04, you are using,
I will check the possibility of building an Ubuntu package:
BitchX-1.2.1 .

→ Please tell the output from this command : $ uname -m

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