./configure: no such file?
 

Hi, I tried to install a tar.gz package and after tarring and cd into the directory the ./configure command returns me that error. Did I miss something from the linuxanswers guide or did something wrong?

did you check to see if there is a configure file inside the dir? When you type ./configure you run that script, so it must be there.
Read the readme or install file.

As a rule of thumb you SHOULDN'T run an
arbitrary command in a directory without having
checked that there's relevant DOCUMENTATION
in that directory... ;)

...but it unfortunately was a diesel. :}



Cheers,
Tink

Hey guys, I've read the readme but there wasn't anything about it. The only relevant file in the directory is a Makefile, which I, uh, arbitrarily ran but that also just produced errors. So there seems to be nothing left in it to work with. :/

try

first of all and see if that does anything... :)

So, do a
ls -lR
Inside the dir and post here the output, so we can try and guess what's in it.

Which program are you trying to compile? I'm sure someone on this forum has installed it before.

It's the vpnc package. Though I probably don't need it installed anymore. :) I've tried the 'make' and that too gives errors. So not that it needs to be installed but I'm curious as to what to do in such occasions.

vpnc is fairly new and fairly undocumented here is a link that might help.
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/96

make should work I think maybe you need the additional libraries.

Looking at the Makefile, you need the libcrypto library installed.

I downloaded the vpnc-0.1.tar.gz file. It compiled for me simply using make.

There are only 2 C files and two header files in the project, so they used a simple Makefile.