Cannot compile from source, "no such file or directory" when input ./configure into shell

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#1

I have been trying to compile a couple pieces of software from tarballs I found online (specifically, openFrameworks, found here: https://openframeworks.cc/download/ ) but when I input ./configure as indicated here I receive a message stating “no such file or directory.” I then tried to run autoconf and got an error message saying “no input file.” The actual code is as follows:

myself@localhost:~> tar xf /home/myself/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release.tar.gz
myself@localhost:~> cd /home/myself/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release
bash: cd: /home/myself/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release: No such file or directory
myself@localhost:~> cd /home/myself/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release
myself@localhost:~/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release> ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
myself@localhost:~/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release> autoconf
autoconf: error: no input file
myself@localhost:~/Work/work/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release>

If anyone has any idea of how to solve this issue or what’s going on here, that would be great.

#2

Hi
Did you look at the INSTALL.md for the instructions? Use the Fedora scripts… replace yum with zypper should get you going.

#3

As suggested above you have to read “install.md”. There is no “configure” file. If you cd down to :

~/of_v0.11.2_linux64gcc6_release/scripts/linux>

You will see:

compileOF.sh

that is what the install says to run.

Hope it works: tom kosvic