How do I install Marathon on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

Ok, so updating my question, maybe this'll help...

I'm trying to install Marathon, on this page it says to unpack the tar.bz2 file and run (I'm assuming this means in Terminal)

./configure && make && make install

but it returns as,

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Not sure what to do here

Are you running those commands from the location where you unpacked that file? You'll need to `cd` to the directory where the source archive has been extracted. See [How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-do-i-install-a-tar-gz-or-tar-bz2-file) for details. — Eliah Kagan, Oct 17 '14 at 02:27

A.B. · Answer 1 · 2015-08-21T20:09:47.250

Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you saved the file:
```
cd /home/$USER/<my_marathon_download_folder>
```
Extract the archive with this command:
```
tar xf AlephOne-20140104.tar.bz
```
Change the folder again:
```
cd AlephOne-20140104
```
Now you can start with ./configure:
```
./configure
```
This command is likely to fail with an error because you'll probably have to install some libraries. But since I do not know your system, I can not tell you which libraries are.

In my case I need, for example, the development library for SDL:
```
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no
```
These can be installed with this command:
```
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
```

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