problems connecting TI83+ with suse 9.1 and tilp

v1pEr · 03-02-2005, 06:49 AM

I already said a big deal in the title but I'll explain it more clearly:

After finding out how to transfer files to and from my mobile phone with bluetooth, I decided to give it a go with connecting my TI Calculator (83+ with official TIBlack link). After a little googling, I found out about a program called tilp that would connect my calc and box and transfer files with a GUI.

On the website of TiLP I saw that I needed to install 3 libraries: libticables, libticalc & libtifiles. I downloaded and extracted them and did a ./configure with libticables. At first it gave me an error (had to install another library wich I found on the ftp mirror of suse) but after that the ./configure went fine and gave no errors, the last line said:

Code:

config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
Now, you can type make and make install

but when I tried to do a make, it said:

bash: make: command not found

I thought: "Of course, I should be logged in as root for this..." so I did a su but it still gives me the same error that the make command couldn't be found...

Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

thx in advance!

zhjim · 03-02-2005, 07:13 AM

Seems like the make programm is not installed. Which seems a bit odd to me, cause i thought its standard in the most recent distributions. What kind of distro you got running ?
Install make and you should be fine. Try a search for a "GNU make" tarball or just "make" or check out your distributions webpage.

--zhjim--

v1pEr · 03-02-2005, 07:17 AM

indeed, everything is fine now. I must have known this *sigh*

stupid me. I thought about it but I was sure i had already installed it, together with al C compiler stuff

thx.
If I ever meet you, I'll buy you a beer

v1pEr · 03-02-2005, 08:54 AM

All right, little Me here again

I have succesfully installed the 3 libraries. Now I installed tilp:

./configure
-> this went succesfully

make
-> did its job perfectly too

make install
-> now here the trouble starts, first I thought it was done properly, but when I took a closer look I saw this:

Code:

---
Installing KMimeMagic local data...
grep: /usr/share/mimelnk/magic: Onbekend bestand of map
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/share/mimelnk/magic: Onbekend bestand of map
make[1]: *** [install] Fout 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kristof/programs/tilp/tilp-6.76/desktop'
make: *** [install-recursive] Fout 1
linux:/home/kristof/programs/tilp/tilp-6.76 # tilp
bash: tilp: command not found

It gave an error when installing KMimeMagic local data... Since I run Gnome I thought it would maybe be optional, but when I run the command tilp, the command is not found...

I installed al development packages, so that's not the problem I guess (correct me if I'm wrong, it's just the opinion of a newbie)

Oh yeah, I also looked in /usr/local/bin/ but found nothing of Tilp (This is the standard folder programs are installed to isn't it?)

Please help me once again

v1pEr · 03-02-2005, 09:57 AM

hmmmmm... the problems start to grow

When I try to install new programs (online update also) through yast2 (install or edit programs)... the GUI doesn't show. I can see the Yast menu, but when I click the icons nothing happens

I don't think this is a good sign, because restarting doesn't help... Doing the update as root doesn't work either

please help me, I think this stuff is going the wrong way...
(the previous problem isn't solved either yet)

thx in advance, I'm really desperate because I use the yast menu quite much since this install is only a week old and I still need several programs. Please help me out

zhjim · 03-03-2005, 03:10 AM

First start with the magic (KmimeMagic), your totaly right that is refering to debian manual only needed for kde. Either there is something similar for gnome or you got to take a look at the ./configure options of tilp and see if you can exclude it. I checked ou the directory of the tarball. There is a desktop dir which contains gnome. So i think it really is just a .Ä/configure option. Another thing i read in the INSTALL file of the tilp is autoconf. its another packet that works together with make. Check if you got this installed.

The other problem with yast2 could be due to make, but i doubt it. I´m not so into suse and desktop-systems so can´t realy help you. Don´t you have some other kind of packet-manager within suse, you could use? Might be that the installation of tlip fucked something up. See if you can get it installed properly and then check out yast2 again.

Come back if you have any other question.

OffTopic: Just a question: Might it be your dutch? The error message sounded like it. If so, check your wallet and see if you got money for that beer, cause it is not far from germany over to the netherlands. I live an hour away from the border. You´ve been warned

--zhjim--