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From: James Holsenback
Date: 8 Feb 2014 06:25:35
Message: <52f6142f$1@news.povray.org>


> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 07.02.2014 05:48, clipka wrote:
>
>> In order to turn the generic source code package into a Unix-specific
>> one, you'll have to run "prebuild.sh" from the "./unix" directory.
>
> ...which lead to an error message:
> error: requires autoconf 2.59 or above
>
> When trying to install autoconf via apt-get, I discovered that the
> Debian repositories only keep the 2.13 version! And now?

or try ...

apt-cache search autoconf

i see:
autoconf - automatic configure script builder
autoconf-doc - automatic configure script builder documentation
autoconf2.13 - automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)
autoconf2.64 - automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)
autotools-dev - Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files
autoconf-archive - Autoconf Macro Archive
autoconf-gl-macros - autoconf macros to check for OpenGL/GLU/GLUT
autoconf2.59 - automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)

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