Spokeman, I just installed midnight commander on 2 of computers both running Ubuntu 9.04. Also installed automake without incident.
I just ran the following commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mc automake It sounds like you need to enable some more or all the repositories listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. I have attached a copy of mine for you to review. ---------------/etc/apt/sources.list---------------- # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090420.1)]/ jaunty main restricted # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:53 PM, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, trying a search on my machine for automake* gets not much, and no > directories or files. A search for auto* gets too much, with a few > autoconf, autoconfig, auto.conf, etc in various locations. Not sure > about any of that. > > A google for the error gets me to a website for automake, a gnu > automated makefile utility. I could install it, but this is not listed > in the Ubuntu repositories tho. So, I don't know if I've made progress > or not. > > > > > > On Jul 24, 5:44 pm, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sorry, Shaun, I couldn't quite hear that -- ;-p > > > > On Jul 24, 5:04 pm, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 13:42 -0700, spokeman wrote: > > > > Aha, I've made progress, but to where I'm not sure. > > > > > > As I said, it gave me the message, even with sudo bash, that > configure > > > > didn't like install-sh. Well, the location it lists is a symlink. It > > > > points to > > > > > > /usr/share/automake-1.10/install-sh > > > > > > I have no automake directory, and no install-sh file inside it! > > > > > > So what does that do? > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > On Jul 24, 2:17 pm, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 11:07 -0700, spokeman wrote: > > > > > > I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my machine. MC (Midnight Commander) > is > > > > > > not available in any of the repositories, but I can get a source > > > > > > tar.gz from their home site. I tried to install following their > > > > > > install recommendations, but it ain't working. The MC install > > > > > > instructions say to run configure first. > > > > > > > > $ ./configure > > > > > > > > but that gets me this error, and I'm stuck. > > > > > > > > configure: error: cannot find install-sh or > install.sh in > > > > > > config "."/config > > > > > > > > There is an install.sh in /config, but it's a zero-byter. > > > > > > > > Ideas? Help? > > > > > > > sudo bash > > > > > enter your password > > > > > ./configure > > > > > exit > > > > > make > > > > > sudo make install > > > > > > > --Shaun > > > > sudo apt-get install automake > > > > > > > -- Regards, Conrad Lawes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
