@NickG,

Thank you for the clarification and the update. It’s essential for users to be aware of these changes, especially when transitioning between versions.

Your tip about ensuring the libgtk-3-0 library is installed for the GUI interface is invaluable. This will undoubtedly assist many users who might be facing similar issues.

Appreciate your contribution to the community!

I recently commented that the latest version was 0.79 and there was no ‘configure‘ file. I have since been in contact with the putty developers who said that they have used the cmake method described in the README file (which is in the putty-0.79 directory) since version 0.77 so no ‘configure‘ file.

The cmake method seems to work but will only generate the command line tools if the gtk library is not in the correct condition. To make sure the ‘putty‘ executable is generated (giving the GUI interface) can first install libgtk-3-0 (for Ubuntu ‘sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-0‘ ).

There is a problem in that the wget command no longer works since the latest version is 0.79. Changing wget to download 0.79 and then carrying out the ‘tar’ command and ‘cd putty-079’ gets to a directory that does not contain a ‘configure’ file and the following ‘make’ commands do not work.

If there have been changes from 0.78 there does not seem to be any documentation. I have been unable to find an archive for 0.78

I didn’t get any ./configure file inside the folder, where did you get the putty.0.78?

@Hemant,

This error typically occurs when you are trying to compile a software package from source code, but the necessary configuration files are missing.

In this case, it seems like you are trying to compile PuTTY version 0.79. To successfully compile software from source, you generally need to follow these steps:

$ wget https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty-0.79.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf putty-0.79.tar.gz
$ cd putty-0.79/
$ ./configure
$ sudo make && sudo make install