Hello, I try https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/RunningSavaneLocally/ on a clean latest Debian web server installation. Some commands are missing for it to work.
$ cd ~/savane/ $ ./bootstrap autoreconf: export WARNINGS= autoreconf: Entering directory '.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I autotools/m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Intltool autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --no-force configure.ac:40: error: required file 'autotools/install-sh' not found configure.ac:40: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh' configure.ac:40: error: required file 'autotools/missing' not found configure.ac:40: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing' Makefile.am:38: warning: dir $@: non-POSIX variable name Makefile.am:38: (probably a GNU make extension) lib/Makefile.am:39: warning: dir $@: non-POSIX variable name lib/Makefile.am:39: (probably a GNU make extension) autoreconf: error: automake failed with exit status: 1 The error is gone when I run `autoreconf -fiv`, not `./bootstrap` (`autoreconf -v`). Then, in the MySQL REPL, `create database savane_demo;` is needed, otherwise `ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'savane_demo'` happens during the loading of the demo tables. And, for http://127.0.0.1:7890/ to stop throwing a directory read error, I need to run `mkdir -p etc/site-specific-content`. Then I could finally start playing with the PHP front end. All these are minor inconveniences but please look at updating this guide and/or the scripts for more things to work out of the box.