othacker@belenus:~/irssi-0.8.11$ ./configure && make ./configure: line 23: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 44: chmod: command not found ./configure: line 51: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 58: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 95: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 95: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 95: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 116: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 127: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 149: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 163: sed: command not found ./configure: line 362: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 236: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 236: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 236: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 236: /dev/null: Permission denied ./configure: line 236: /dev/null: Permission denied This script requires a shell more modern than all the shells that I found on your system. Please install a modern shell, or manually run the script under such a shell if you do have one.