Installing APT ( No rule to make target `install'. Stop)

[tofigh]

Hello all.
I am a new linux user. I tried to instal synaptic package manager. but after running "./configure" it gave me this error

"checking for apt-pkg/configuration.h... no
configure: error: You need the apt-pkg headers installed to compile synaptic."


so I downloaded APT from here" ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.22.tar.gz
and tried to install it.
there was no error at "./configure" and "make" steps (At least from my point of view)
But when I tried to run "make install" command, it again give me this error message

"make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop."

What does it mean?

Looking forward to hearing from you my expert friends
Tofigh

[coopstah13]

you don't need to compile software most of the time, you can install synaptic easily with

apt-get install synaptic

you need to be running as root

[reed9]

Debian Linux apt-get package management cheat sheet

[tofigh]

Thank you very much BUT

The problem is I am not a root user. I don't know its password and I can't even use
"sudo" command.

So the only way to install softwares for me is to download their source and compile them by myself.

and unfortunately, I still couldn't find any way to solve my problem.

Regards

[reed9]

Sudo is not setup by default on Debian systems. Also, you'd need root privileges to do anything with synaptic, so I'm not quite sure what the point of installing it would be. And you need to be root to install your compiled package as well.

Who installed Debian to the computer? It's not difficult to change the root password. How-To: Recover root password under linux with single user mode | Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks