I am trying to install the autoconf and automake tools on the latest Ubuntu but I am having problems finding anything online that will help me do this, I've tried to do apt-get update but I am having no luck. I need these tools in order to install a machine translation program. So my question is how exactly do I install both of these.
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2You need the autotools to build a tarball for the program you want to install, but you do not need them to install the program unless the program's distribution system is horribly broken. Get a tarball and install it. If you cannot do that, report it as a bug to the maintainer of the machine translation program. – William Pursell Jun 20 '12 at 21:00
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This is probably more appropriate to ask on: http://askubuntu.com. But all you should have to do is:
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf

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