Help Compiling a Program

[esaym]

I am trying to make a deb of the lastest version of soundkonverter. I am just doing it pretty much for fun. Yea I know I could just update to fiesty and I would have the lastest stuff but I want to try to hold off updating until kde4. Plus that gives me a good excuse to compile my own programs

Anyway the lucky program today is soundkonverter. I followed: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51003 because I want to make a deb. After doing a

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

It stops with this error:

/home/soundkonverter-0.3.2/soundkonverter-0.3.2/admin/missing: line 52: automake-1.9: command not found
WARNING: `automake-1.9' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
         You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
         Grab them from any GNU archive site.
 cd . && perl admin/am_edit
cd . && perl admin/am_edit Makefile.in
cd . && rm -f configure
cd . && /usr/bin/make -f admin/Makefile.common configure
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/soundkonverter-0.3.2/soundkonverter-0.3.2'
configure.in:43: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:48: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.in:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_COMPILERS
configure.in:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_SHARED
configure.in:53: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
configure.in:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_KDE_WITH_NLS
configure.in:61: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_KDE
configure.in:70: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_KDEMAXPATHLEN
configure.in:204: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
make[2]: *** [configure] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soundkonverter-0.3.2/soundkonverter-0.3.2'
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/soundkonverter-0.3.2/soundkonverter-0.3.2'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
userdev@userdev-desktop:/home/soundkonverter-0.3.2/soundkonverter-0.3.2$

Files in question configure configure.in configure.in.in

Someone on irc told me that the am_init_automake command is actually deprecated. If this is the problem is there anyway to automatically update the commands?

I always hate asking dev questions. Seems like no one can ever answer my question. I feel like I am so close to getting this deb built though. I just gotta get it to work!

[Mr. C.]

apt-get install automake

if you need 1.9 specifically:

apt-get install automake1.9

MrC

[esaym]

apt-get install automake

if you need 1.9 specifically:

apt-get install automake1.9

MrC

Ohh I forgot to mention. I have installed automake 1.4-1.9. None of them seemed to make any difference. I only had one at a time installed too, not sure if that is the right way or not..