Thankyou, not sure if I should be a little offended or not,
Your welcome, no, I don't think you should be offended, any way not intended to offend, but it should give you a better understanding of the term "xy" problem, and I don't think H_O_A_S intended to offend either, as he said " it looks like it MIGHT be a xy problem", maybe it is , maybe it isn't....
As H_O_A-S has provided suggestion of how to achieve via using debian source, I will being trying that next.
In any event, he can help you better then I can, I am really lousy at explaining something. .But I do agree, that is probably your best option, (using the Debian source).
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Even though you no longer plan to use the github file/script, this may help you still , or also be of use in the future... Use code boxes, when showing the commands, and out put, it is hard for us to understand and see exactly what is happening when we can not see your terminal / console,...code boxes help: EG:
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bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory
Is this:
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bash-5.0$ ./autogen.sh
bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory
bash-5.0$
how you run the comand ?
(I get the same error)
So next , try this:
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bash-5.0$ ls -a autogen.sh
ls: autogen.sh: No such file or directory
bash-5.0$ pwd
/home/cuckoo
bash-5.0$
As you can see, the file is not in this directory, so where is it ?
There are various ways to locate a file, I use the 'locate' command, others will perhaps suggest other commands that might be better...I am no expert with Linux and bash.
Anyway:
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ash-5.0$ locate autogen.sh
/home/cuckoo/github/autogen.sh
/usr/local/share/help/C/gnome-devel-demos/samples/hello-in-C/autogen.sh
/usr/local/share/help/C/gnome-devel-demos/samples/hello-in-js/autogen.sh
/usr/local/share/help/C/gnome-devel-demos/samples/hello-in-python/autogen.sh
/usr/local/share/help/C/gnome-devel-demos/samples/hello-in-vala/autogen.sh
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So I go to:
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bash-5.0$ cd /home/cuckoo/github/
bash-5.0$ ls -a
. .. autogen.sh
bash-5.0$
Ahh, great, it is here:
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bash-5.0$ ./autogen.sh
this is a example
And it works. But if it did not work, we need to see the actual script, (not the one in the tutorial, but the one you tried to run and did not work)
So any way, here is is :
my "autogen.sh"
Hope this helps you or others, with understanding better how to show the details we need, and use code boxes.
Hope it works out