Quanta help... anyone? Install help please!
 

OK, heres the deal. I am new to linux. I have used the quanta web editor for a few days now. Like it. Downloaded the new beta version. Opened with ARK. Extracted the files to a folder named quanta in /home/user/quanta. Can't install it. Install directions say:
In order to compile and install Quanta Plus on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Quanta Plus distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install


Since Quanta Plus uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

Allright. This means nothing to me. I opened the Konsole thingy and typed this in... nothing. Logged in as the SU and still nothing. I can't install anything on linux. Only things I have been able to install are firefox and thunderbird. But that pretty much did it self. Some please help. I will forever be in your debt.

PS Don't recommend another editor, I've tried Screem, mozilla, I like the quanta a lot! I am determined to figure this linux install stuff out! I also don't really know what I am doing with extracting stuff either. Kinda just wingin it.

Thanks

do you have a compiler(gcc and g++) and autoconf, automake, make, libtool, etc... from the development section of the install cd?

I am not sure??? I downloaded the file from the internet. I don't have a CD for it. When I installed Mandrake I told it to install all of the stuff it offered up.

forget the file for just a sec, I'm asking about the Mandrake installation itself. try this in a console/xterm:

g++ -v

and see what the output is.

If there's not any at all, then we have to install some packages ( development packages ).

I haven't used Mandrake 10.1 ( did use 10.0 a little ), but check your menu's for an software tool of some sort

I found a tutorial on how to use a compiler but I don't know where to begin: heres a link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=15

This tutorial tell me to create this compiler, but doesn't say how. It tells me the code to put in, but doesn't say where to put it in at. I don't know very much about linux at all, so any help is going toneed tobe provided from the ground up. Thanks

ok, first thing we have to do is make sure you have a compiler and the necessary development tools on your system. for the compiler itself, run the following in a xterm/console:

g++ -v

and let me know if you have any output ( or a command not found error).

Here is what I found out with the g++ thing

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.1/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f77,objc,java --host=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)

good, we have the c++ compiler. Now its time to go back to quanta and see what we get.

cd to /home/user/quanta and execute the command "ls" (no quotes) which will give you the current files in the current working directory. There should be a file called configure in there. If there is, then try the following:

./configure

and let me know how it goes. ( you will need to install it to the kde root directory which is probably /opt/kde ( check and see if there is an /opt/kde)). If this is the case, then the line above will need to be :

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde

hi,

as well as a compiler, you'll need some more development tools, such as autoconf (as alluded to in the Quanta documentation) - check you've got autoconf installed by issuing the following in a console -

if it is installed, output of above should show the location of the installed program (/usr/bin/autoconf).. Chances are, if you opted to install the development programs during Mandrake installation, you should have everything you need.

you say you get nothing when you type .configure. are you in the quanta directory you extracted to? what exactly happens when you type the command?

i'm assuming you are typing ./configure, then pressing the return key - the % signs are just notation for the command prompt - you don't need to type those!

should I use the Konsole terminal? Or something else?

konsole is fine.

Also, how do i execute the ls? I need you to hold my hand through this one, step by step. I know less than nothing about programming.

this is where I am at

[josh@c-xxxxxxxxxx josh]$ /home/josh/quanta
bash: /home/josh/quanta: is a directory

type:

cd /home/josh/quanta

then:

ls

and see if one of the files in that directory is named configure

I typed all these and got nothing. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[josh@c-xxxxxxx josh]$ /home/josh/quanta
bash: /home/josh/quanta: is a directory
[josh@c-xxxxxxxxx josh]$ cd/home/josh/quanta
bash: cd/home/josh/quanta: No such file or directory
[josh@c-xxxxxxxxxx josh]$ cd/home/josh/quantals
bash: cd/home/josh/quantals: No such file or directory
[josh@c-xxxxxxxxxxx josh]$ cd/home/josh/quanta/ls
bash: cd/home/josh/quanta/ls: No such file or directory
[josh@c-xxxxxxxx josh]$ cd/home/josh/quanta ls
bash: cd/home/josh/quanta: No such file or directory
[josh@c-xxxxxxxxx josh]$

need a space between cd and /home/xxxx

cd /home/josh/quanta

We've struck GOLD!!!

Here's where I am at

[root@c-24-2-243-84 josh]# cd /home/josh/quanta
[root@c-24-2-243-84 quanta]# ls
kdewebdev-3.3.2/
[root@c-24-2-243-84 quanta]#

type:

cd kwebdev-3.3.2

and then:

ls

Things are doing things....

It did a lot of stuff that it said yes too, but this is the very last portion

checking for extra includes... no
checking for extra libs... no
checking for libz... configure: error: not found.
Possibly configure picks up an outdated version
installed by XFree86. Remove it from your system.

Check your installation and look into config.log

What do I do now?

Well, now we gotta check for libz ( type this into the konsole: ls /usr/lib | grep libz and see if you get any output) Mandrake does things different than other systems.

Now you know where the configure script is and how to invoke it. You will probably have to do something like:

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde

or wherever kde is installed. Sorry but I have to go to bed (I work nights into early morning) but the place you want to go is back out to the main forum index, then distrobutions, then Mandrake.

They will be able to help you more than I can since I do not run Mandrake and they will be more familiar with your system and what you will need ( plus they will be able to teach you how to find out what software is installed on your system and how to get more/update what you have with the supplied Mandrake tools).

Good luck.

Thanks for all your help!