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I am installing a software on a raspberry pi model B+ with the newest (29.3.2015) version of Raspbian freshly installed.

The software I am opting to install is OWFS. First I install the required software for installation

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf autotools-dev gcc-4.7 libtool

then in the unpacked software folder i run:

 sudo ./configure

and then 

 sudo make

which gives this error message

 pi@raspberrypi ~/owfs-3.1p0 $ sudo make
 cd . && /bin/bash /home/pi/owfs-3.1p0/src/scripts/install/missing 
  automake-1.14 --foreign
/home/pi/owfs-3.1p0/src/scripts/install/missing: line 81: 
automake-1.14:     command not found
  WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.
     You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or
     'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
     The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:

 Makefile:494: recipe for target 'Makefile.in' failed
 make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
eric
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  • Seems that someone else had a very similar problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27721869/automake-difficulty-with-installing-version-automake-1-14-1 – eric Mar 31 '15 at 08:25
  • In the console, what is the output of "automake --version" and "automake-1.14 --version"? – Jorge Torres Apr 01 '15 at 15:45
  • Thanks for your help Jorge Torres ! Just solved the problem an hour ago. The problem was this: By not selecting the locals in raspi-config correctly, Perl was no running properly. This prevented the header files from the installation of libusb-dev to be placed in the right place. Thus I alway got the message after running ./configure that USB was disabled. So the problem was solved by making Perl work! – eric Apr 02 '15 at 16:21

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The issue was that Perl was not running:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

By setting locals properly issue was resolved.

Thanks for the help Jorge

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