Re: [Trisquel-users] Compiling sources

[Dave Hunt]

I always install the package, build-essential, before trying to build 
anything.  The Trisquel repos may also have build dependencies for your 
package; use
sudo apt-get build-dep

and your app's name.
The package may specify a particular version of autoconf or automake; 
get those, as well?  Finally, some packages require that you use the 
'./autogen.sh', to make the config files.