Comment 2 for bug 1673232

I've been able to install, but the install documentation in the source README file could likely benefit from some additional information.

The following worked based on some comments in:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16188335/automake-error-no-proper-invocation-of-am-init-automake-was-found

Install script:

https://github.com/ahundt/robotics_setup/blob/master/byobu-source.sh

Script contents:

# Save script's current directory
DIR=$(pwd)

set -e
set -u
set -x

echo "#########################################################################"
echo "# byobu shell session manager http://byobu.org installation from source"
echo "#########################################################################"
echo "# ON UBUNTU YOU PROBABLY REALLY WANT TO RUN commandline_utils.sh"
echo "#"
echo "# byobu makes it so you can access multiple remote shell sessions"
echo "# via a single remote ssh session, and keep things from being terminated"
echo "# if you get disconnected accidentally"
echo ""
echo "Based on instructions in:"
echo " http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/byobu/trunk/view/head:/README"
echo "Installation bug on MARCC:"
echo " https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1673232"

mkdir -p ~/src
cd ~/src

if [ ! -d ~/src/byobu ] ; then
    git clone git://github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu.git byobu
fi

cd byobu
git pull

if [ ! -f ~/src/byobu/ChangeLog ] ; then
    touch ~/src/byobu/ChangeLog
fi

aclocal
automake --add-missing

autoconf

./configure --prefix="$HOME/byobu"
# original configure command:
#./configure --prefix="$HOME/byobu"
make install

cd $DIR