I got this to work in two steps on ubuntu 8.04:
Step 1: download and build the stable knowit:
./configure failed with following error message:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and
libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
Installed the following packages using synaptic:
qt3-devtools (may not have needed this one)
libqt3-headers
libqt3-mt-dev
kde
kde-devel
./configure
make
sudo make install
(success!)
can now run knowit as /usr/local/kde/bin/knowit
Step 2: download and build the alpha version:
downloaded knowit-0.11a1.tar.bz2
ran make -f Makefile.cvs - this failed due to tool versioning problems
and missing automake
sudo apt-get automake
edited admin/cvs.sh to fix versioning problems
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure
make
sudo make install
can now run /usr/bin/knowit
you can edit admin/cvs.sh with 'patch -p1 < patch' ; here's the patch:
diff -r 9099f8ecebc1 admin/cvs.sh
--- a/admin/cvs.sh Mon Jun 09 13:27:32 2008 -0600
+++ b/admin/cvs.sh Mon Jun 09 13:32:26 2008 -0600
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ required_autoconf_version="2.53 or newer
required_autoconf_version="2.53 or newer"
AUTOCONF_VERSION=`$AUTOCONF --version | head -n 1`
case $AUTOCONF_VERSION in
- Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* ) : ;;
+ Autoconf*2.5* | autoconf*2.5* | \
+ Autoconf*2.6* | autoconf*2.6* ) : ;;
"" )
echo "*** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!."
echo "*** KDE requires autoconf $required_autoconf_version"
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ esac
AUTOHEADER_VERSION=`$AUTOHEADER --version | head -n 1`
case $AUTOHEADER_VERSION in
- Autoconf*2.5* | autoheader*2.5* ) : ;;
+ Autoconf*2.5* | autoheader*2.5* | \
+ Autoconf*2.6* | autoheader*2.6* ) : ;;
"" )
echo "*** AUTOHEADER NOT FOUND!."
echo "*** KDE requires autoheader $required_autoconf_version"
@@ -68,7 +70,8 @@ case $AUTOMAKE_STRING in
echo "*** KDE requires automake $required_automake_version"
exit 1
;;
- automake*1.6.* | automake*1.7* | automake*1.8* | automake*1.9*)
+ automake*1.6.* | automake*1.7* | automake*1.8* | automake*1.9* | \
+ automake*1.10*)
echo "*** $AUTOMAKE_STRING found."
UNSERMAKE=no
;;
marbux wrote:
I got a bit farther with it. It wants kdebase-dev for the x-includes.
But still no joy. Thanks for trying. It sounds like the problem is
with the source rather than some peculiarity with VirtualBox. I'll try
to raise the developer and see about getting a fresh copy from CVS.
Best regards,
Marbux
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Running Ubuntu gutsy 7.10.
Downloaded and unpacked knowit-0.11a1.tar.bz2
Installed g++.
Noticed despite the INSTALL file, no configure script included.
Installed autoconf.
$ autoconf configure.in
$ sh ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
./configure: line 1868: syntax error near unexpected token `knowit,'
./configure: line 1868: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(knowit, 0.11alpha1)'
I don't know what language they are trying to program in there
at line 1868 but I don't recognize it. The configure script
doesn't make sense. Giving up.
--
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
Would someone with a recent Debian based OS mind trying to build an
app from source and give me a pointer or two? The app is Knowit,
<http://knowit.sourceforge.net/download.php>, and I wish to build the
0.11a unstable version from source.
I want the particular build because the deb package of the stable 0.10
version is less than stable. I have previously built the 0.11a version
from source on Mepis 6.0 and reconfirmed today that I still can using
the same "make" command line given on the download page . The 0.11a
version when built from source is far more stable than version 0.10
and cleans up a couple of critical bugs.
I'm amidst setting up two virtual appliances running on a WinXP host
system using VirtualBox. One is for Mepis 7.0 and the other is for
Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy running as guests. No problems so far other than
the Knowit compilation (although I have not yet got to the stage of
getting the host and guests talking to each other.) I've installed
autoconf and build-essential on both appliances.
If I try to build KnowIt 0.11a from source with either of those
distributions, I get nothing but error messages and am having no luck
tracking down a fix for my issues. Given that I can build the app
using Mepis 6.0 and not the later flavors of Debian, I'm wondering if
I might need an older version of autoconf or some such. But I don't
build apps from source often enough to tell whether that might fix my
problem or whether installing the older version of autoconf might
screw up the system in other ways.
I'd appreciate any help here. Without going into details, I've reached
a stage of aging where I really need an outliner in organizing my
thoughts and notes. I've been using Knowit for 2+ years because of a
particular mix of features that make it the best around for my
particular purposes. So this is rather mission-critical for me. If
necessary, I can scrap Mepis 7 and Kubuntu 8.04, sticking with Mepis
6. But given that I'm setting up a new system, I'd like to start with
the latest and greatest.
Best regards,
Marbux
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