Re: Couldn't locate INSTALL file

[Ying Chang]

Hi Eric, John and Rudra,

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. I followed the instruction coming
with the tarballs and managed to install it onto the computer cluster I am
using. Thanks again for the kind help!

Cheers,
Ying

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Ying Chang
Post-doc Scholar
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Oregon State University
email: address@hidden
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:32 AM, John Calcote <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Ying,
>
> You're probably running a linux distribution. If it's debian based
> (such as Ubuntu), then run the following command from a command prompt
> (as root):
>
> # apt-get install autoconf
>
> If it's a redhat-based distribution such as RHEL, SuSE, or Fedora, run
> this command:
>
> # yum install autoconf
>
> or
>
> # zypper install autoconf
>
> (whichever one works on your system)
>
> This will install autoconf from the standard repositories provide by
> your linux distro.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Ying Chang
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi, I am a biologist who doesn't know much about computers. I need to
> > install autoconf as it is one of the dependencies of a program that I
> want
> > to use. I downloaded the autoconf package with 'git clone git://
> > git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf' . The README file says that I should read BUGS
> and
> > INSTALL. But there is no INSTALL file in the package. Did I get the
> package
> > from the wrong place? What should I do? Thanks!
> >
> > Ying
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Ying Chang
> > Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
> > Oregon State University
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