I am trying to install firefox China on my Xubuntu machine.
It is a seemingly normal tar.bz2 file.
But I could not get it to be installed.
Here is some reference https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/compile-install-tar-gz-tar-bz2-files-ubuntu-linux/
Here are the steps I took until I hit a block.
- Prepare your system for installing from source
# https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/compile-install-tar-gz-tar-bz2-files-ubuntu-linux/
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install subversion git-core mercurial
# Install autoconf
sudo apt-get install autoconf
# Put all of the source code folder inside here : /usr/local/src
# Create this directory
sudo chown $USER /usr/local/src
# Gave it write access
sudo chmod u+rwx /usr/local/src
# Install apt-file for dependency issues
sudo apt-get install apt-file
# Update apt-file
sudo apt-file update
# Move your tar.gz / tar.bz2 filr to here : /usr/local/src
sudo mv <YOUR_TAR.GZ_FILE_NAME> <DESTINATION_FOLDER_PATH>
# cd into the local src folder
cd /usr/local/src
# extract the source file
tar -xzvf <filename>.tar.gz
# OR
tar -xjvf <filename>.tar.bz2
# Read the README file or INSTALL file
# cd into your software's folder
cd /usr/local/src/<extracted folder>
Here comes the question :
The folder DOES NOT contain any ./configure file.
What should I do???