What ./configure make and make install does [closed]

4 ./configure runs a script named "configure" in the current directory. make runs the program "make" in your path, and make install runs it again with the argument "install".

2024 Feb 14

How to add libraries path to the ./configure command?

I would like ./configure to link to a library and some include files. My library is stored in /home/foo/sw/lib/ and my files are stored in /home/foo/sw/include. ./configure --help throws out

2025 Oct 04

How to put multiple -I, -L and -l flags in ./configure?

Note that in most cases it would be unusual to specify that many paths as flags; instead, I would expect to find --with options to tell the configure script where to find various

2024 Oct 11

How to configure a network interface on Ubuntu Server 22.04?

3 I would like to configure the ethernet network interface of a server but I am completely lost. I saw on the internet that you could do it with the nmcli tool but also with

2025 Jun 04

What does --prefix do exactly when used in ./configure?

When you install software with make install or sudo make install, different files are placed in different directories. Executables that provide commands the user is intended to run

2025 Oct 10

What does "./configure; make; make install" do?

What does ./configure do? Why make then make install? How does it know where libs are? ( they are all there and loaded but it cant find them.) Why need libs if compiler is supposed to compile?

2025 Sep 13

Configure proxy for APT?

To use a proxy, you need a proxy server. The IP and port have to be from this proxy server. Login and pwd must be your user and password on the proxy server (if the proxy

2026 Jan 19

E: dpkg was interrupted... run ''sudo dpkg --configure -a''

Run the command it tells you to sudo dpkg --configure -a and it should be able to correct itself. If it doesn''t try running sudo apt-get install -f (to fix broken packages) and then try

2025 Nov 13

Can not run configure command: "No such file or directory"

I''m trying to install a Debian package from source (via git). I downloaded the package, changed to the package''s directory and ran ./configure command but it returned

2025 Jun 27

"./configure" command does not work

The ''configure'' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains

2025 Jun 06

View/Download How to configure energy storage in solar projects [PDF]

PDF version includes complete article with source references. Suitable for printing and offline reading.