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Distribution: Fedora 12, Arch Linux (updated daily =D)
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stopmotion slackware 12.2
I'm having problems with the installation of the program stopmotion for linux. I believe that it was originally designed for use in Debian linux, but I'm on slackware. When I run ./configure, I get an error about libtar not being found. I know it's installed, and there's not a slackbuild. Dumb question, but what am I supposed to do now?
Often when there isn't a slackbuild for a program, I'll create a package using src2pkg, which will work on a .deb, and then install via installpkg. If you haven't already discovered it, src2pkg is a marvelous tool, created and maintained by our very own gnashley
I had to create a softlink for libtar.so.0, which I did using libtar.so.1, and I had to create a couple of softlinks for a couple of Qt libs (which are in a strange place on my pc, prefixed by Trolltech), but it's all running, so you shouldn't have a problem.
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