It looks like you're doing a Git clone. You will need to run the autogen.sh script to create the configure script which requires the GNU Autotools be installed on your system.
If you're looking for a tarball that is "ready to go" with the configure script available, you can get a daily snapshot from:
The configure file seems to be missing when I try to install this is what I get:
root@PDN-LINUX:/home/philip# cd hamlib-code
root@PDN-LINUX:/home/philip/hamlib-code# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
I've tried 3 different versions and none of them have the file. What am I doing wrong?
It looks like you're doing a Git clone. You will need to run the autogen.sh script to create the configure script which requires the GNU Autotools be installed on your system.
If you're looking for a tarball that is "ready to go" with the configure script available, you can get a daily snapshot from:
http://n0nb.users.sourceforge.net/
and for releases:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib/files/hamlib/
Finally, there is no need to be root to compile Hamlib, only to install it in the system directory structure.
HTH,
73, Nate