Hi Folks. I've got a Debian 3.0r2 upgraded to testing from the testing repositories which now has KDE 3.3, and has supposed to have installed Ksim. The binary is missing. This is the same problem I had with FC2. But here I was able to install a tarball (ksim-1.0.1a) from sourceforge. I tried the same tarball on my upgraded Debian install, but ./configure complains that
Qt3.1 (20021021) (headers and libraries) not found. The latest version of qt showing in /usr/lib is libqt.so.3.3.4, and there is a directory in /usr/lib for qt3 plugins. Anybody any ideas if I 've got a hope of getting KSim installed.

According to synaptic, I've got libqt2 version 3:2.3.1-22 installed.
I tried to install libqt3, but it refused.

Can I force it to install using the existing qt libraries?

QT libraries installed:
libqt2 version 3:2.3.1-22
libqt3-compat-headers version 3:3.3.4-3
libqt3-dev version 3:3.3.4-3
libqt3-headers version 3:3.3.4-3
libqt3c102 version 3:3.3.4-3
libqt3c102-mt version 3:3.3.4-3

This ain't a big deal, but is just nice to see cpu useage and network bandwidth useage and Ksim does that just fine. Nigel. aka farpoint.

Kernel: 2.4.27-2-386 & 2.6.8-2-386

Try using export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 in the shell window just before the ./configure command and it should find the QT directory. Also have you heard of the checkinstall package with it you can have it create and install a .deb package of the source you are building allowing for an easy uninstall if you want and the package system gets to know about any locally installed software. You would use instead of the usual make install at the end of the process the command su -c 'checkinstall -D --pkgname=name_of_package --pkgversion=version_number'[/i] then enter in your root password the package is then built and installled.

Hi Stephen. This has been fun. export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 stopped ./configure complaining about the missing libraries and headers, but then complained that it needed qt-mt. Off to the repository, and got libqt2-mt. Fixed? not on your life. Still complaining about qt-mt, so back to the repo. Close your eyes, stick the pin in and hope you've got the right file. libqt3-mt-dev. It had to remove libqt3-dev to put it in the library. ./configure. By this time ./configure must have been getting a bit T'd off, and I was expecting some caustic remark, but it ran ok, hung about a bit on QT, and then moved on. Great I thought. It came to a stop, now with a KDE problem "No prefix, missing KDE headers" . So back again to the repo. Theres so much stuff in synaptic,it's like a telephone directory. kdebase-dev looked promising, and did mention headers to develop apps. Got that and ran ./configure again. Bingo! "You can now run make". And the rest is just history. Quite an interesting experience with brain in top gear. Thanks once again for your help. Nigel aka farpoint.


And re farpoint and star trek, I havn't got the machine to speak to me yet. I had a go with computer speech on Dynbolics virtual disc, but couldn't get it to work. Thats for another day.