sudo make won't work

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I can't install anything in .tar.gz format because it tells me make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. What do I do?

.tar.gz files are just compressed archives (tar stands for TapeARchive and gz stands for GZipped) You will have to extract the contents to a folder, typically something like tar xvzf filename.tar.gz Then cd to the folder (it will include any necessary .make files) and run any necessary commands to build the software and install it. Typically ./configure make and make install (this last one may require sudo appended to it. Consult the readme files usually included in the archive. — hmayag, Feb 04 '14 at 21:12
Can you provide some more information? What files were extracted? What is the full name of the .tar.gz? Where did it come from? — user3121023, Feb 04 '14 at 23:11
If there is no .make file then perhaps there's a binary installer or shell script (.sh). Ordinarily there should be a install or readme text file with instructions on how to procceed. — hmayag, Feb 05 '14 at 08:04
You might go to [http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/9.20.1/] and download p7zip_9.20.1_src_all.tar.bz2 That contains the source that you could compile with make You could also download the binaries for linux. — user3121023, Feb 05 '14 at 09:32
i found the make files for p7zip, do they not appear if you dont extract from the terminal? — kookman98, Feb 05 '14 at 17:10
Does this answer your question? Error when installing Makefile: "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." — mickmackusa, Jan 11 '22 at 06:01

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answered Feb 04 '14 at 20:48

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