Ubuntu Install Thrift

I am trying to install thrift, but it isn't working.

When I run bootstrap.sh, I keep getting this error:

./bootstrap.sh: 24: autoscan: not found

What does that mean and how can I fix it?

It means that it can not find autoscan...

which autoscan

If that doesn't return anything, you'll need to install it. If it does, you'll have to modify the script to point in the right location, it's normally found in /usr/bin/

Hi,

After doing 'which autoscan' if it comes back as not found, you'll want to install autoscan. To do so, see below:

1. sudo to become superuser

2. Run either:

sudo aptitude install autoscan

OR

sudo apt-get install autoscan

These will install the autoscan package from the repositories setup on the Linux box. If you want to make sure your packages are up to date, you can run:

sudo apt-get update 

Run this command after changing /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/preferences . This command periodically to make sure your source list is up-to-date.

> sudo apt-get install autoscan

Thanks for the help, but note this doesn't work directly on Ubuntu 9.04, apparently there is no autoscan package so the above command fails. Instead you have to do "sudo apt-get install automake" to get autoscan.

Walter Gillett