Install Questions

[Wade Smart]

12082005 1234 GMT-5

It has taken many many long days but its working! Thanks time for that 
explanation. Every time I went to get that lib file the rep was down. 
Finally got it last night and got it install today.

Again - thanks everyone who responded.

Wade



Tim Frost wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:46 -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
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>>This is from the INSTALL file:
>>1. ./configure
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>when I ran configure, it crashed:
>        creating libtool
>        checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>        checking for libgnomeui-2.0 gtk+-2.0 libglade-2.0... tim at marvin:~/src/gruler-0.6$ echo $?
>        1
>        tim at marvin:~/src/gruler-0.6$ tail config.log
>        #define PACKAGE "gruler"
>        #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
>        #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
>        #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
>        #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
>        #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
>        #define STDC_HEADERS 1
>        #define VERSION "0.6"
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>        configure: exit 1
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>This indicates that some dependent development packages are missing from
>the build machine.  I confirmed that libgnomeui-dev was missing.
>Selecting that in synaptic, then checking the marked changes, tells me
>that 54 packages need to be installed.  The necessity to install
>development packages is consistent with the way software is packaged,
>with the development libraries separated from the production binary
>package.
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>The INSTALL and README files do NOT tell you what development libraries
>are needed, and because this is not a debian/ubuntu source, there is no
>way to know what build dependencies must be met.
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>However, after installing libgnomeui-dev and the other 53 files, the
>configure finishes by creating the makefiles:
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>        configure: creating ./config.status
>        config.status: creating Makefile
>        config.status: creating intl/Makefile
>        config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
>        config.status: creating macros/Makefile
>        config.status: creating include/Makefile
>        config.status: creating src/Makefile
>        config.status: creating pixmaps/Makefile
>        config.status: creating gruler.desktop
>        config.status: creating config.h
>        config.status: executing depfiles commands
>        config.status: executing default-1 commands
>        config.status: creating po/POTFILES
>        config.status: creating po/Makefile
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>And the make was successful
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>>2. 'make' to compile
>>3. Optionally, 'make check'
>>4. make install
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>For this step you need to be root.  The advice to use checkinstall is
>good, as it creates a .deb that can be managed using apt.  checkinstall
>is in universe, so you need to enable that repository.
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>Your choices are:
>1: Just do the install:
>  sudo make install
>2: use checkinstall to build a .deb package, and install that:
>  sudo checkinstall
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>>5. you can remove the binaries.
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>>Thats pretty much it.
>>I have two files titled Makefile.am and Makefile.in. I dont know if that 
>>helps.
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>>There is a thread running about frustruation with linux, if there is any 
>>one thing that is totally frustrating is this: installing software.
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>>I installed this on 5.04 and considering I dont know what Im doing, I 
>>got it running. HOW did I do that?
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>I would guess that you had all the development tools and packages
>installed.
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>>Thanks for your help Federico.
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>>Wade
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>Tim
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