k3b plugin compile error

Kropotkin · 05-26-2010, 01:02 PM

Hi all,

I am trying to compile the K3b monkey audio plugin under Fedora 13 x86_64 from source. (Alas there is no rpm of this package for Fedora that I can find)

configure is throwing back an error at me:

Code:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021) and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

I have the package qt3-devel-3.3.8b-29.fc13.x86_64 installed, but this doesn't seem to be enough. Any ideas about which package I am missing?

Thanks.

business_kid · 05-27-2010, 08:38 AM

You're missing Qt3.x (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021) and < 4.0)
Solving that, it wants more than qt-3.120021021 and less than 4.0

Try rpmfind.net and grab one from an older version.

You want qt-3.3.8 as well as qt3-devel

Kropotkin · 05-27-2010, 09:13 AM

No, I have both v3.3 and v4 installed. These are the relevant Qt3 packages according to rpm:

Code:

$rpm -qa | grep qt3
qt3-3.3.8b-29.fc13.x86_64
qt3-devel-3.3.8b-29.fc13.x86_64
avahi-qt3-0.6.25-6.fc13.x86_64

I am missing something -- but what?

business_kid · 05-27-2010, 10:28 AM

Still giving hassle?

There's usually an option --with-qtdir=/somewhere

Also, configure scripts check for the existence of packages using pkgconfig, which stores little files in /usr/lib64/pkgconfig or somewhere like that. It could be that you installed in /usr/local, so the pkgconfig file would be in /usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig. You will have to find those pkgconfig files. You can get around this by setting a variable

export PKGCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/up/my/nose/pkgconfig;

Just checking here, I see qt did not install the pc files at all, but had them in /usr/lib/qt4.3.4/lib/pkgconfig. So I have changed to /usr/lib/pkgconfig (32 bit box) and run

lndir ../qt4.3.4/lib/pkgconfig

Mind you, I don't know why you're compiling k3b, when it's a fedora package. you install k3b ??

Kropotkin · 05-27-2010, 10:43 AM

Thanks for the suggestions; I will take a look.

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Still giving hassle?
Mind you, I don't know why you're compiling k3b, when it's a fedora package. you install k3b ??

Apparently you didn't read my original post very closely. I am not trying to compile K3b, which I have indeed installed via yum, but rather a plugin for K3b, for which I have been unable to find an rpm. The closest I came was one for Suse 11, which, not surprisingly wouldn't install under Fedora 13.

knudfl · 05-27-2010, 12:01 PM

Which 'k3bmonkeyaudioplugin' are you trying to build ?

?? http://www.k3b.org/download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k...in-3.1.tar.bz2
>>> tar.bz2k3bmonkeyaudioplugin-3.1.tar.bz2 ? ?

Depends on kde 3 >= 3.2 < 4 !
May build on kde-3.5.10, not usable with a later version.
( KDE 4.x )
May be usable with k3b version 1.0.5 for kde 3.5.x .
..

Kropotkin · 05-28-2010, 06:25 AM

OK, I think I understand the situation now. I have the latest K3b installed and that is built for KDE v4. The source for the monkeyaudio plugin depends on v3. Apparently KDE v3 and v4 (programs|libraries) can't exist on the same system, correct? Sorry for my ignorance; I use Gnome, so I don't have a good understanding of KDE.

In any case, I found a way of converting APE+CUE files to FLAC or MP3 on the command line which works:

Fast High Quality Encoding of ape Format into Lame mp3 or Nero m4a on Linux

As you can see, it depends on some CLI programs in the Fedora repos: bchunk shntool cuetools

Obviously, it isn't as elegant a solution as the K3b plugin, especially regarding the addition of ID3 tags. I can only hope that someone updates the plugin package to KDE v4 in due time.