VMPK installation problems
ok... my problem is fairly simple... i want to install a program called VMPK its a virtual keyboard, but through googling i seem to keep running in circles. The program comes as a tarball, which i have no idea how to install (still semi new to Linux... within my first 2 months)... i have read something about compiling it as an RPM but i cant seem to find anything else other than that... this is probably something super simple, but if you could help me out with this it would be great! my platform is Fedora 12 thank you in advance for any help!
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on another note, i found lists of commands that i could use through terminal but the ./configure command doesnt work, so if there is a different set of commands to use through terminal, that would be great! although it seems ill advised to install them that way, so i guess i am moreso looking for a way to compile my tarball's files into and RPM
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yum install cmake qt-devel alsa-lib-devel gcc-c++ exit tar xvf vmpk-0.3.1.tar.bz2 cd vmpk-0.3.1/ mkdir build cd build/ cmake .. ( i.e. cmake <space> period period ) make su make install exit ... And type vmpk to see the piano keyboard. Good luck. .. .. :) .. |
Building an rpm package.
You will need the rpm-build package installed with yum. Setting up an unprivileged rpm account in /home/<username>/ : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5.1-766486/#13 > > post # 13. Getting the SRC RPM source package (linked on the VMPK site) : http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...1-5.19.src.rpm > vmpk-0.3.1-5.19.src.rpm Install the package to /home/<username>/rpms/ .. rpm -Uvh vmpk-0.3.1-5.19.src.rpm cd rpms/SPECS ... and edit the file vmpk.spec : line 16 Edit the word libqt4-devel to qt-devel Next : rpmbuild -bb vmpk.spec The package is created to rpms/RPMS/i686/vmpk-0.3.1-5.19.i686.rpm ..... |
tried your reccomendation... this is the result... i hope you can help me make heads or tails of it
Code:
[root@localhost build]# make install |
Well, some xsl, etc. + internet connection is probably required ? ?
The packages, I can think of (and have installed long time ago) are : sgml-common-0.6.3-31.fc12.noarch libxslt-1.1.26-1.fc12.i686 docbook-style-xsl-1.75.2-4.fc12.noarch libxslt-devel-1.1.26-1.fc12.i686 docbook-* I get this now : Code:
[root@localhost build]# make install vmpk-0.3.1-5.19fc12.i686.rpm , 304 kB , to a return mail. ..... |
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