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Problem installing vcftools

I'm trying to install vcftools but when I try the command

autoconf configure.ac

it gives this output 

configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

so i tried running just 

./configure.ac

it it gives this error

./configure.ac: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `[2.63]'
./configure.ac: line 4: `AC_PREREQ([2.63])'

Any help in understanding what I should do would be greatly appreaciated

vcftools
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written by saltinimatteo98 • saltinimatteo98

you should just download the release, and compile with configure+make:

./configure
make
make install
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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

I downloaded the release but when I run the command 

tar xvf vcftools-0.1.15.tar.gz

it says

tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'vcftools-0.1.15.tar.gz'
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written by saltinimatteo98 • saltinimatteo98

anyway tar xvf works on my machine:

$ wget -O "vcftools-0.1.15.tar.gz"  https://github.com/vcftools/vcftools/releases/download/v0.1.15/vcftools-0.1.15.tar.gz && tar xvf vcftools-0.1.15.tar.gz
(...)
./vcftools-0.1.15/._LICENSE
./vcftools-0.1.15/LICENSE
./vcftools-0.1.15/._Makefile.am
./vcftools-0.1.15/Makefile.am
./vcftools-0.1.15/Makefile.in
./vcftools-0.1.15/._README.md
./vcftools-0.1.15/README.md
./vcftools-0.1.15/aclocal.m4
./vcftools-0.1.15/._autogen.sh
./vcftools-0.1.15/autogen.sh
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/output.0
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/output.1
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/requests
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/traces.0
./vcftools-0.1.15/autom4te.cache/traces.1
./vcftools-0.1.15/._build-aux
./vcftools-0.1.15/build-aux/
./vcftools-0.1.15/build-aux/._git-version-gen
./vcftools-0.1.15/build-aux/git-version-gen
(...)
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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

I downloaded the release but when I run

./configure

it prints this

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

and when I try

./configure.ac

it prints this

./configure.ac: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `[2.63]'
./configure.ac: line 4: `AC_PREREQ([2.63])'
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written by saltinimatteo98 • saltinimatteo98

Looks like you need to install autoconf. See this.

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

autoconf is rarely enough, you need to install automake as well, these are combined in packages named 'autotools' in some distributions. You cannot run configure.ac, you either need to generate a configure script or get a package which includes it, like a release tar-ball. The autogen.sh way is only for building the git directly, according to the documentation the tar.gz should include the configure script.

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written by Michael Dondrup Michael Dondrup

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