I am trying to compile Quantum's LTFS software from source on a Debian Squeeze system.

Software here:

http://www.quantum.com/Products/Tape...TFS/Index.aspx
http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSup...TFS/Index.aspx

They provide binaries for Red Hat and SUSE, but not Debian, thus I need to compile myself.

I have installed the dependancies:

> sudo apt-get install libicu-dev libfuse-dev uuid uuid-dev libxml++2.6-2 libxml++2.6-dev

./configure completes without error.

However, when attempting to "make" I see the following:

sudo make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/station/Downloads/qtmltfs-1.2.0'
Making all in messages
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/station/Downloads/qtmltfs-1.2.0/messages'
genrb number of files: 3
sh: ./icu-config: not found
pkgdata: icu-config: Could not read from icu-config. (fix PATH or use -O option)
required parameter is missing: -O is required for static and shared builds.
Run 'pkgdata --help' for help.
make[2]: *** [bin_mkltfs_dat.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/station/Downloads/qtmltfs-1.2.0/messages'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/station/Downloads/qtmltfs-1.2.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I've tried exporting the path to icu-config (/usr/bin), I've tried manually editing some of the pkgdata paths in the Makefile, but still receive the same error.

I am a bit stuck now and at the end of my Linux knowledge. Any assistance much appreciated.

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[12 hours later....]

Sitting at Heathrow airport with 30 minutes to spare, I decided to have another look at this. I have with me a 3 year old netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx NBR. Not exactly the machine I want to connect up to a Quantum LTO5 tape drive, but nonetheless, something I thought I could at least trouble shoot on.

Anyway, the software compiled without error on this machine.

This leads me to the conclusion that there is some library or path linking problem with vanilla Debian. If anyone has some insight into this, I'd certainly appreciate it. Otherwise, I guess I will be installing Ubuntu on the workstation when I'm back in the office.

Do you have build-essential installed on your Debian machine?.
I'd guess Ubuntu installs this by default where Debian can often not.

( 'build-essential' provides g++ ( and the g++ dependencies ) + make : No 'configure'
would work in qtmltfs with no gcc etc.)


Debian Squeeze :
The issue is the libicu44 devel files (icu-config ?) ( libicu-dev version "44".)
Solution : 1) # apt-get remove libicu-dev ( Can be reinstalled later.)
( Don't remove libicu44, several libicu* can be installed at the same time.)

2) # dpkg -i libicu42* ( From Ubuntu 10.04 : No libicu42 avavilable for i386, amd64 Debian.).
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libicu42

3) # dpkg -i libicu-dev_4.2.1-3_<arch>.deb
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libicu-dev

( I tried some other workarounds for qtmltfs, only the above worked.)

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I stand corrected.Thanks knudfl.

Apologies it has taken me so long to reply, but only just back with access to this machine today.

The good news is that your solution worked, knudfl. Thank you for your assistance with this.

I can now hopefully back up data to LTO5 tape to my heart's content.

If you're interested, I also needed to compile a custom kernel with legacy scsi support turned on, to finally get this drive working:

http://stream0.org/2011/08/04/settin...ive-on-debian/

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Hi all,

I am having the same problem building the LTFS package from source on a system running Fedora 16. I get the exact same error when I run the make command. The default libicu for the build is 4.6-4. There are a ton of packages that have dependancies to the current libicu. That being said I don't want to remove the current version.

I downloaded an .rpm for 4.2, but when I try to install it I get an error saying that I have a newer version and the older version cannot be installed.

Any suggestions on how to get around?