Installing Software Through Terminal

[throese]

Yes, I know how to obtain things such as:

sudo apt-get install [insert program here]

But, how do you go about configuring files?

I downloaded AssaultCube version 1.0.4, but I don't know how to install it.

I've read about the whole:

./configure
Make
Make Install

But don't understand how that process works. Can anyone help me, please?

I've been using Ubuntu the past week or two and officially dual-booted with Windows 7 a few days ago. Still have to use Win 7 and WAMP for Web Development purposes because I had that whole MySQL Server 5.1 issue that others had.

Anyway, please help with compiling from the source with the aforementioned method (Installation from Source).

[linux18]

forget source

sudo apt-get install assaultcube

it should then be configured and ready in the games section, if not apt/synaptic might need cleaning:


sudo apt-get -f || echo "ERROR 0"
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* || echo "ERROR 1: no partial packages - harmless error"
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin || echo "ERROR 2"
sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2}' | tr '\012' ' ')
sudo apt-get clean || echo "ERROR 3"
sudo apt-get autoclean || echo "ERROR 4"
sudo apt-get autoremove || echo "ERROR 5"
sudo apt-get update || echo "ERROR 6"
sudo apt-get --fix-broken upgrade || echo "ERROR 7"

[throese]

Thank you Linux18 and it worked, but what's wrong with the configure method?

[linux18]

source can be ****ing hard to deal with sometimes, it's always better to look for a prepackaged program first before diving into source. I've only rarely been able to successfully compile from source.

[throese]

Ah, okay. That makes sense and does work. Thanks again Linux18.

[oldos2er]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware

[linux18]

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