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I have been trying to compile the "smtube-15.5.10.tar.bz2" file found in the web http://sourceforge.net/projects/smtube/ ... 10.tar.bz2, but inside the package I don't find the instructions for compile with Linux and the ./configure file doesn't exist.

I don't know how I can manipulate the file Makefile. If I run "make" I cannot compile nothing.

When I compile other programs using "./configure, make, and make install" I can add a PREFIX to install the software where I like, and I don't need to use root for that If I install the program in my HOME folder, but inside the smtube package I only see a "Makefile" and there isn't any text note with the instructions to install that program.

I wonder if I could install smtube, but without using root for nothing.

How can I compile and install Smtube into my HOME folder?

Why GNU/Linux Debian do not have the new Smtube .deb package yet into the official Sid or experimental repository?

I enjoy Smtube very much, but I prefer using software proceeding only from inside the official GNU/Debian repository. I don't trust very much in software I find outside the Debian repository.

Inside the package of Smtube I can find folders with the name "Windows". Is that for Microsoft Windows? I only use GNU/Linux.

Thanks.

SOLVED.

Thank you very much for the information, rvm. Now I know how to compile with qmake if I need to do that in the future, thanks.

I don't have part of the software that you showed me installed. When I try to install it, a lot of packages try to install too because of the dependencies, so I proved another solution.

I visited the following site:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/u ... /s/smtube/

And downloaded the following package:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/u ... 1_i386.deb

Then I extracted the deb package content, and inside the folder bin I found the smtube binary.

Despite I am using Debian Stretch, that binary for Ubuntu works for me.

Now I'm using the smtube application again.

Thank you very much. All the best.

Bye.

Yes, adding package building tools will involve pulling in other packages; not really a problem except with very limited disk space and/or very limited download bandwidth. Adding those packages will not slow your system down. Your binary hack did work, but is not a recommended practice. This article in the Debian wiki has some very cogent advice:

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Also, I think zlib1g-dev is no longer required to build the new version--at least my packages build and work without it.

There's some packages I built for Jessie here currently: http://main.mepis-deb.org/mx/testrepo/p ... /s/smtube/

Stevo, thank you for the information.

Yes, I'm using an old personal computer with a very limited disk space. Despite I got the SMTube binary from a site unconnected with the official Debian repository, I think http://ppa.launchpad.net/ is a known place that contains secure software, so no problem. The SMTube binary is installed in the home folder and I didn't use root privileges for nothing.

I couldn't make a .deb package because I need to install some compiling extra software and the disk space is almost full, also I live in the countryside and here the Internet speed is not very high.

All the best. Bye.