These are the steps one needs to install to be able to compile yad:
Download yad from
iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/yad-dialog/yad-0.36.3.tar.xz
cd into the directory it's been downloaded, for example ~/Downloads:
cd ~/Downloads/
Extract the archive:
tar -xvJf yad-*.tar.xz
cd into the newly extracted yad folder:
cd yad-*
Install the prerequisite packages:
sudo apt-get install autoconf libgnomeui-devel
Finally generate build scripts and then continue the normal compilation
process:
autoreconf -ivf && ./configure && make && sudo make install
