can't install update

[Mobean]

I have been trying to update old version on Jellyfish on a remote server. The executable file in usr/local/bin is not updating. I am quite a noob so this is a very green question. I have limited experience updating programs on our linux server. I tried using the commands in readme file, but only get errors. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

colleen@Rosalind:~/REPdenovo/Jellyfish$ ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes ./configure: line 3010: LT_INIT: command not found checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking for md5sum... md5sum checking for yaggo... false ./configure: line 3884: syntax error near unexpected token VALGRIND,' ./configure: line 3884: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VALGRIND, valgrind >= 1.8.0)' colleen@Rosalind:~/REPdenovo/Jellyfish$ emacs sub_commands/info_main_cmdline.yaggo

[gmarcais]

Hi Mobean,

you should use the release tarball instead of starting from the github tree. You can dowload the tarball named jellyfish-x.x.x.tar.gz from here. The following code should install jellyfish in /usr/local:

wget https://github.com/gmarcais/Jellyfish/releases/download/v2.2.6/jellyfish-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar zxf jellyfish-2.2.6.tar.gz
cd jellyfish-2.2.6
./configure
make -j 10
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

If you install in a different location where you don't need root access, for example in your $HOME, then the following is enough:

wget https://github.com/gmarcais/Jellyfish/releases/download/v2.2.6/jellyfish-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar zxf jellyfish-2.2.6.tar.gz
cd jellyfish-2.2.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make -j 10
make install

Hope this helps.

[Mobean]

So helpful. Thanks!