Installing SuperKaramba from source...

Eerath · 08-18-2005, 11:40 AM

I downloaded the SuperKaramba .tar.gz file from the official website, extracted it and tried to install it. Whilst running ./configure the installer said this...

Code:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!

I looked in Synaptic for Qt, but for some reason Synapitc only displays 1100 packages at the moment, earlier it displayed 17000, so Qt wasn't there.

So how do I solve this? Do I have to buy Trolltech's Qt to run SuperKaramba?

bruno buys · 08-18-2005, 11:47 AM

Search for qt-mt, there should be some package with this name. I installed it recently for some dep in Debian Sarge.

Eerath · 08-18-2005, 12:56 PM

*groan* I installed that, and the packages it requires without realising it wanted to remove every single KDE application in order to do so... I'm gonna have to reinstall the whole OS to put that right...

mdmarmer · 08-19-2005, 11:52 AM

Welcome to Mepis !!

Try http://www.mepislovers.org -- very helpful forum

I recommend installing SuperKaramba 0.37.1 from deb rather than compiling from source -- much easier

copying instructions I got from here

http://www.mepislovers.org/modules/n...forumpost68821

Download and install from
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=23945

You will also need to install python2.4 for it to work.

The easiest way is:

1. open a terminal window
2. type "su" (without quotes)
3. type root password
4. type "apt-get clean" (without quotes)
5. type "apt-get update" (without quotes)
6. type "apt-get install python2.4" (without quotes)
7. let install the other programs that it needs

To install superkaramba_0.37-RC1-1_i386.deb.

In the same terminal window just type dpkg -i superkaramba_0.37-RC1-1_i386.deb.

You'll be up and running superkaramba in no time.

[This should all work if your /etc/apt/sources.list is set up for updates (may need to edit this file as root -- do a search in MepisLovers if
problems)]

-- Mike ;-)

Eerath · 08-19-2005, 01:08 PM

Well, it gave me the usual errors about kdelibs4 being the wrong version, but it installed anyway

Thanks

mdmarmer · 08-19-2005, 04:45 PM

Glad that helped

Mike

lefty.crupps · 08-23-2005, 11:16 AM

fyi, SuperKaramba will look/work much better when Debian Unstable (including Mepis) moved to KDE 3.4... I've noticed that the text is all messy with LiquidWeather, so I'm just waiting I guess.