./configure won't work when installing tar ball programs

AgoristTeen1994 · May 21, 2011, 9:37am

Hi I’m trying to install bitcoin onto my computer, and the Linux version only comes in tar.gz, and I can extract it just fine, however when I put in ./configure using the command line…it doesn’t work…so I checked the README file and it didn’t mention doing that…it simply told me to run either /bin/64/bitcoin
or to run /bin/32/bitcoin

However when I try running first one, /bin/64/bitcoin, it simply says something about there not being a shared library…

But when I try to run /bin/32/bitcoin it simply says “Permission Denied” and yes I tried running as root when I first saw that…didn’t do any good. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks and have a nice day.

Edward_Iii · May 21, 2011, 10:04am

Hello AgoristTeen1994,

The readme is right, there’s no need to compile it yourself since the binaries are already built.

Do you run 64-bit openSUSE or 32-bit?
The one to choose depends on the one you run.

That’s because for some reason the binary hasn’t got execute permissions.
Enter the bin/32/ directory with a filemanager, right click on bitcoin.
Select the permissions tab and make sure “is executable” is checked.

Good luck!

gropiuskalle · May 21, 2011, 11:01am

…or

chmod +x /path/to/bitcoin

AgoristTeen1994 · May 21, 2011, 2:48pm

Okay thanks for the suggestions.

martin_helm · May 21, 2011, 3:30pm

AgoristTeen1994 wrote:

> However when I try running first one, /bin/64/bitcoin, it simply says
> something about there not being a shared library…
>
Post the exact output here (if it is very long post it to susepaste.org and
give us the link here), maybe you simply need to install something in
addition.