I currently have awstats 7.0 which is from 2010. I would like to update to current stable relase, which is awstats 7.3
I tried
tar zxf awstats-7.3.tar.gz
cd awstats-7.3
ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 5 puter puter 4096 Jan 29 2014 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 puter puter 4096 Jan 24 23:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 puter puter 4096 Jan 29 2014 docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 puter puter 7020 Jan 29 2014 README.TXT
drwxr-xr-x 5 puter puter 4096 Nov 4 2013 tools
drwxr-xr-x 7 puter puter 4096 Nov 4 2013 wwwroot
./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
make
make: No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
???
please, advise. Thank you.
I also followed this link http://www.awstats.org/docs/awstats_upgrade.html
however, I dont really know where to distribute the files on the system.
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)
Release: 7.5
Codename: wheezy
If the first command you try to run (./configure) fails (No such file or directory), then probably you should stop right there. The rest of the commands won't work any better.
Did you read the README.TXT file?
Awstats doesn't seem to be a program that needs to be compiled, and it doesn't have a configure script (obviously since you showed the list of files and there isn't one there). I googled for "awstats install" and found this page where it says:
After downloading and extracting the AWStats package, you should run the awstats_configure.pl script to do several setup actions. You will find it in the AWStats tools directory
and you clearly have a tools directory, so I would start with that.