[QCLUG] Problems Installing Software

[Dave Bergert]

Bob:

Mark did a great job of explaining the process.. so I would start with  
that.

Basically the rule is try a binary package first  (well if you are not  
running http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ or Gentoo - http://www.gentoo.org/ 
  ), and if a binary doesn't exist then you need to do the whole ./ 
configure ./make make install steps, and make sure that all of the  
dependencies and libraries are installed.  Sometimes this can be a pain.

Here are some comments below: (Just to make sure that I top post,  
middle post and bottom post :)


On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Robert Jones wrote:

> Thank you for getting back to me so quick Dave.
>
> Dave Bergert wrote:
>> Did you read the README or INSTALL file that came with the package.  
>> there are likely software and library dependencies that are  
>> required that you do not have.
> I thought I did but it's like reading Greek to me most of the time.
>> See http://roadmap.sourceforge.net/manual.html#id.s4.1
>>

This listed the required and optional dependencies and required for  
the software.  the instructions point out that GTK or QT is required  
to build/compile the code from source.


>> Did you read this:
>> http://roadmap.sourceforge.net/manual.html#id.s4.6
> Probably not. I looked at it but didn't spend a lot of time. I guess  
> this is just so different I'm going to have to learn to do things  
> Right :-(

These are basically the step by step instructions, that state there  
are 2 steps before unpacking the archive.

>
>> Did you do the first steps ?
> No. But I'm learning :-)

Great :)


>
>> Have fun,  BTW I don;t see a binary package for roadmap for ubutu.
> I guess I don't understand. Do you mean that I can only install it  
> if there is a "Ubuntu" binary package? I thought that any Linux  
> package would work. Again, got a lot of learning to do.
>

There are basically two ways to install software on linux -- from a  
binary package -- this is the "apt-get install" stuff.   the other  
option is compile and build from source. which requires development  
tools, compilers, library files, header files, etc.  this is the  
configure, make, make test, make install

> I'm just Playing with my laptop and am installing KDE4 Kubuntu in it  
> again just to see if they are making any progress. I know they are.  
> I'll download the documents and print them off and try it again.
> Thanks Again.

Anytime -- DB
>

Dave Bergert
dbergert@gmail.com