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While installing eclipse.tar.gz and when I used ./configure command,it returned me the following error:

"bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"

How to solve this error, so that I can install eclipse on my system.

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    Did you unpack the tarball, step into the unpacked directory, and then run ./configure? OT: Do you have any particular reason to not install Eclipse from the repositories? Commented Jun 5, 2014 at 8:15
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    yes @Biffen,i want to learn linux,so i go for installing it from terminal,yes i had unpacked my .tar.gz file,it had extracted it into a folder called eclipse,now i moved to that folder and then run ./configure so that gave me the above error. Commented Jun 6, 2014 at 17:04
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    Installing from repositories can be done from a terminal too. What you're attempting looks more like compiling it from source, which is fine, but if you get stuck at this step then maybe it's not for you just yet. ./configure simply means "execute the file called configure in this directory, and Bash is telling you there's no such file. Where did you get the instructions to use that command? I suggest looking there for help, and if you still can't work it out then consider using a ready-made package. Commented Jun 7, 2014 at 16:00

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First make sure you are in that directory. Then before you use ./configure command.

$ autoreconf -i

and then ./configure. This worked for me.

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I installed 'pmars-0.9.2' (its was unpacked from pmars-0.9.2.tar.gz) on Ubuntu 18.04, but with ./configure i also got a similar bash: ./configure: No such file or directory error. For the correct use of the command autoreconf -i i wrote in sequence:

# automake # apt install automake # apt install automake1.11 # autoreconf -i

and for me this already goes into another error:

autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required

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