How to install facebook watchman on ubuntu?

Question

I got watchman from github link https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git, then I got watchman folder and tried this

./autogen.sh 

./autogen.sh: 9: ./autogen.sh: aclocal: not found

./autogen.sh: 10: ./autogen.sh: autoheader: not found

./autogen.sh: 11: ./autogen.sh: automake: not found

./autogen.sh: 12: ./autogen.sh: autoconf: not found

Why ? I have python 2.7.9.

Could it be the cause ? ( I use ubuntu 15.04 btw)

Answer 1

You need to install each of the missing packages.

For example on ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install automake  <=== contains autoheader, ...
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf

If you wind up with a bunch of errors like AC_* undefined, then you may need a more up-to-date version of automake. You can download the source from the gnu repo ... see: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/

Answer 2

If getting following error on $ ./autogen.sh

$ ./autogen.sh
./autogen.sh: 9: ./autogen.sh: aclocal: not found
./autogen.sh: 10: ./autogen.sh: autoheader: not found
./autogen.sh: 11: ./autogen.sh: automake: not found
./autogen.sh: 12: ./autogen.sh: autoconf: not found

You’ll need to install automake && autoconf.

As i did the following:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf

Then proceed with the steps for ./autogen.sh, etc.

Answer 3

With Watchman v4.9.0 on Ubuntu 18.04:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake build-essential python-dev libtool pkg-config libssl-dev

Then follow the instructions as per https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html#installing-from-source :

git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git
cd watchman
git checkout v4.9.0  # the latest stable release
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install