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tvankith

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Registered: 2018-04-01

Posts: 5

***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.7 installed

while installing nautilus-open-terminal-git i got error like this

-> Found automake.diff
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    nautilus-open-terminal ... Skipped
    automake.diff ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of nautilus-open-terminal git repo...
Cloning into 'nautilus-open-terminal'...
done.
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Updated version: nautilus-open-terminal-git 0.20.15.g07fe03e-1
==> Starting build()...
patching file configure.in
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** PKG_NAME is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
autom4te: ./configure.ac: no such file or directory
checking for automake >= 1.7...
  testing automake... not found.
***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.7 installed
  to build .  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.tar.xz

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

after googling i got automake's Stable release: 1.16.1 / March 11, 2018; 13 days ago

Last edited by tvankith (2018-04-01 05:05:50)

sadboi389

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Registered: 2018-03-31

Posts: 33

Re: ***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.7 installed

Can you provide the output of `$ automake --version` please?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,849

Re: ***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.7 installed

testing automake... not found.

pacman -Qs automake

You may want to install the base-devel group.

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