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Re: Compiling KwinTV?



http://kde.debian.net/debian/dists/potato/qt1apps/source

you can grab my old source/diff's and compare

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:50:32AM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> 
> 
> >no...it's not that it can't find the lqt and mt libs, it cant find the
> >lqt-mt libs.  It's trying to link to the mt version of qt.
> >
> >  apt-get install libqt-mt-dev
> >
> This fixed the linking problem and make ran clean. Thanx!
> 
> >> My other question is, once I've got make complete, will make install put
> >> everything into the right directories for a Debian-based system or will I
> >> need to change anything first? Ideally I'd like to build, test and contribute
> >> a .deb for kwintv as I can't seem to find one but I know little enough about
> >> just compiling software. I wouldn't know where to start to make a .deb out of
> >> it.
> >
> >dunno...I haven't tried to build/install kwintv for quite some time so I don't
> >know where it wants to put things.
> >
> Once I had everything compiled, I tried running ./kwintv from the directory it
> was left in, but it failed because nothing was installed where it wanted it.
> I.E. it's own tools and such.
> 
> Tried make install and this failed to place some icon in
> /usr/local/kde/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps due to missing directories. I
> created the directories and make install finished, but I don't know where kwintv
> was put and neither does my system? typing kwintv at the command line just gives
> command not found? At this point it was 03:00 and I needed to get up @06:00 for
> work so I went to bed. It might just turn up after a re-boot.
> 
> >If you want to know how to build .deb's, you should look at the packaging
> >manuals and whatnot.
> >
> I'd love to, but with 12 hour work days 3 days a week, Programming night classes
> twice a week, Beta testing Progeny Linux, watching Debian-kde develop and become
> more stable each time you update something and not knowing a great deal about
> Linux or programming, It would be just a bit too much for me to take on at the
> moment. Maybe when the world slows down or I get up-to-speed with programming
> I'll have another look : )
> 
> Thanks again for your excellent assistance and for putting so much time into
> getting KDE to work on Potato systems! I can attest that for MY Woody/testing
> based Progeny system your latest releases seem to be very stable. Keep up the
> great work!!!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>      John Gay
> 
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