"make"ing a tarball

[toylet]

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install checkinstall

cd /path/to/tarball
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
checkinstall


so I downloaded the tarball, unpacked it, cd'd to the
> sources and did make dep and it said make not found.
>
> So what does it take to make in ubuntu.
>
>

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