-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory ?

[gelsas]

I am quite new to linux and I was trying to install arping on my raspberry pi (Rasbian).

So I downloaded the latest arping version from here https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping/releases), put it on my raspberry pi and extracted the .tar.gz file.

After that I tried to follow the instructions given in the Install file (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping/blob/arping-2.x/INSTALL)

When I try to follow the instructions I get this error:

[15:16:19] openhabian@openHABianPi:~$ cd arping-arping-2.19
[15:16:27] openhabian@openHABianPi:~/arping-arping-2.19$ ls
bootstrap.sh  doc    fuzz        INSTALL  Makefile.am         README
configure.ac  extra  HACKING.md  LICENSE  Makefile.am.common  src
[15:16:28] openhabian@openHABianPi:~/arping-arping-2.19$ ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[15:17:51] openhabian@openHABianPi:~/arping-arping-2.19$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
[15:17:51] openhabian@openHABianPi:~/arping-arping-2.19$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.
[15:17:59] openhabian@openHABianPi:~/arping-arping-2.19$

[ThomasHabets]

(I've used tripple-backtick to format your comment better)

When downloading from github you need to run ./bootstrap.sh first. That requires that you have autotools installed.

If you don't want to deal with that you can download this which is the same but with these generated files (configure and friends) already generated.