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I know there's a lot of questions about downloading .tar.gz files, but I haven't found any that explain my problem. When I'm trying to install these files, using the 

./configure
make
sudo make install.

But when I use ./config, it returns bash: ./config: No such file or directory. Same with make and sudo make install. Am I doing wrong, or is there just an error with my computer? As I said, this is not the same question as "how to download .tar.gz files" because I tried their solution and it didn't work. There is no ./configure file to cd into.

James
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  • I'm assuming you cd'd into the correct directory. If you do an ls, do you see a file called config? – anonymous2 May 18 '16 at 15:42
  • Did you cd to the directory? – David May 18 '16 at 15:43
  • The first thing you're doing wrong is assuming all tar archives contain source code that is buildable using the ./configure - make - make install paradigm: they may contain code for other build systems such as cmake or scons, or may not even contain source code at all. The second error is using ./config - the script (if it exists) will almost certainly be called ./configure – steeldriver May 18 '16 at 15:43
  • There's a folder called configuration, but there isn't much that looks usable. The contents of configuration are config.ini org.eclipse.equinox.source org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator org.eclipse.update – James May 18 '16 at 15:59

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Yes you're doing it wrong. First of all, tar.gz is simply a compressed archive. Think of it as a zip file. There is no guarantee that it will have a configuration script. That said, the default name for the configuration script is configure, not config.

So, the standard operating procedure to install from a source tarball is:

tar xvzf foo.tzr.gz
cd foo
./configure
make
sudo make install
terdon
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  • same resulte with ./configure I'm trying to install Eclipse and a JRE, if that helps at all. – James May 18 '16 at 15:56
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    @James everything depends on the contents of whatever you downloaded. If it's a JRE, I very much doubt that any configure script is available. Where did you download this from? There should be instructions there. I can't help unless you edit your question and tell us what you downloaded, where from, how you extracted it and the contents of the folder you extracted it into. More importantly, what's wrong with sudo apt-get install eclipse? – terdon May 18 '16 at 16:01
  • Never tried that one. I couldn't find a .deb version of eclipse so I assumed I couldn't get it through apt-get install. I downloaded the JRE from Java. – James May 18 '16 at 16:02
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    @James http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/eclipse it should be easy enough to install. If that is what you end up doing, please delete your question since it won't help anyone else. If you still want to install from source, follow the instructions on their website. I'm sure they explain. – terdon May 18 '16 at 16:04
  • @James if you are trying to install Eclipse probably you only have to exctract the contents of the .tar.gz file and move them to any location you want. Take a look on how to install eclipse from source – migrc May 18 '16 at 16:06
  • @terdon your link doesn't have any discernible download. I'm using @migrc link to try and install directly from source, but so far no dice. I tried sudo apt-get install eclipse and it didn't work. E: package not found. – James May 18 '16 at 17:23
  • Meh. I got wine to work correctly so I'll just run an exe through wine. It's working just fine. – James May 18 '16 at 17:38
  • @James there is a installer for linux in the eclipse project webpage. Try it (there are 32 and 64 bits versions) – migrc May 19 '16 at 06:07