lfs-book/chapter06/automake-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Automake</title>

<para>Automake-&automake-version; is known to be too new for some
applications. KDE-CVS is mostly reported not to work well with this
automake release and downgrading to version 1.4-p5 is recommended if you
start experiencing any problems with this release.</para>

<para>Install Automake by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

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