bash: ./configure: No such file or directory while installing FFMPEG

Question

I am trying to install FFMPEG in Ubuntu 14.04. I got help to install FFMPEG installation In meanwhile I got an error

`bash: ./configure: No such file or directory`

I am getting this error when I try to run this command

./configure   --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build"   --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include"   --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib"   --bindir="$HOME/bin"   --enable-gpl   --enable-libass   --enable-libfaac   --enable-libfreetype   --enable-libmp3lame  --enable-libtheora   --enable-libvorbis   --enable-libvpx   --enable-libx264   --enable-nonfree   --enable-x11grab

Here is the ls -la output:

m-usman@muhammad-usman:~/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg-0.9.2$ ls -la 
drwxr-xr-x 16 m-usman m-usman   4096 Aug  6 14:25 . 
drwxrwxr-x 10 m-usman m-usman   4096 Aug  6 14:38 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman 162704 May  3  2012 avconv.c
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  36942 May  3  2012 cmdutils.c
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   1284 May  3  2012 cmdutils_common_opts.h
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  11858 May  3  2012 cmdutils.h
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   3275 May  3  2012 common.mak
-rw-rw-r--  1 m-usman m-usman    421 Aug  6 14:34 config.fate
-rw-rw-r--  1 m-usman m-usman 137030 Aug  6 14:34 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x  1 m-usman m-usman 114524 May  3  2012 configure
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  18092 May  3  2012 COPYING.GPLv2
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  35147 May  3  2012 COPYING.GPLv3
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  26528 May  3  2012 COPYING.LGPLv2.1
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   7651 May  3  2012 COPYING.LGPLv3
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   1038 May  3  2012 CREDITS
drwxr-xr-x  3 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 doc
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  68481 May  3  2012 Doxyfile
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman 185387 May  3  2012 ffmpeg.c
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman 107664 May  3  2012 ffplay.c
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 ffpresets
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  41085 May  3  2012 ffprobe.c
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman 159009 May  3  2012 ffserver.c
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman    564 May  3  2012 INSTALL
drwxr-xr-x 13 m-usman m-usman  24576 May  3  2012 libavcodec
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libavdevice
drwxr-xr-x  4 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libavfilter
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman  12288 May  3  2012 libavformat
drwxr-xr-x 10 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libavutil
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libpostproc
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libswresample
drwxr-xr-x  7 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 libswscale
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   2005 May  3  2012 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman  19678 May  3  2012 MAINTAINERS
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   4459 May  3  2012 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 mt-work
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 presets
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman    164 May  3  2012 README
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman      6 May  3  2012 RELEASE
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman   3383 May  3  2012 subdir.mak
drwxr-xr-x  4 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 tests
drwxr-xr-x  2 m-usman m-usman   4096 May  3  2012 tools
-rw-r--r--  1 m-usman m-usman      6 May  3  2012 VERSION
-rwxr-xr-x  1 m-usman m-usman   1419 May  3  2012 version.sh

How can I fix it?

Solution

Permissions look fine

-rwxr-xr-x  1 m-usman m-usman 114524 May  3  2012 configure

But something is preventing it from executing. This can happen because of several reasons, most common are:

1. Architecture mismatch. E.g. my Bash shell shown here:

   $ file /bin/bash
   /bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x5bb332752cc304fa7fbb838bdf7d7766ffc7a8a1, stripped
   

   Would not run on a RaspberryPi (ARM) or any 32bit (x86) system:

   $ uname -a
   Linux raspberry 3.12.20 #1 PREEMPT Thu May 29 01:23:51 CEST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux
   

   This does not seem to be the problem because as far as I remember, configure files are shell scripts, but it could be in other cases, so I thought it would be useful to point it too.

2. Mount options prevent from executing files. You can check this with the mount command without options. In the following example I could run ~/executable.bin but not /run/shm/file.sh

   tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1593900k)
   /dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,nodiratime,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered,discard)
   

3. Other more advanced scenarios such as

   3.1 SELinux restrictions

   Again, this is not the case, the ls -l output would show a dot in the permissions column (-rwxr-xr-x.)

   3.2 ulimit constraints

   Not your problem, and probably the message error would be different (feel free to edit the post and remove this entry if you think it only adds noise to the answer).

PS: If you provide the output of mount too, we will check option #2.

Comments

[CijcoSistems]

Could you provide the ls -la output? Maybe there really is "No such file or directory"

[Muhammad Usman]

Yes please check question again

[CijcoSistems]

Maybe my request was a bit overkill, but we have a better context now :P

[Muhammad Usman]

Thanks sir but |I get some other error different from previous :( like packages are not available etc..

[Admin]

Remove them from the list. They are not available for 14.04