On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: > Hi > > I have been running Mandriva since before mandrake 8. > > 1st question ... what is the app, is the src in a .mdk package? If so, > install the pkg as per normal, it will go into /usr/src/whatever. > > If it is a tar or similar pkg unpack it to /usr/src/... Konqueror is > excellent for this. Open 2 panels, unpack in 1 panel, goto usr/src in > the 2nd panel, then drag n drop the appropriate dir across. > > From there it is a normal compile but test before you install. You will > need the src package for your kernel installed before you compile. If > the compile bombs there may be other pkgs you need to install also. > > HTH > Barry
Hi Barry, thanks for your reply. I have an application that I have written that uses Qt4 and in particular it needs to use the Firebird/Interbase driver. There doesn't appear to be a package for the IBASE SQL plugin, so I figure I need to build Qt myself. So I downloaded the qt4-4.3.4-6mdv2008.1.src.rpm package and tried to install it. First Mandriva warns me that I probably don't want to install it because it's a source package, but I say install anyway, but nothing seems to happen - I can find no trace of the source files being installed. I can always download the source from Trolltech but I'm curious why Mandriva won't install from the package. If I can solve this problem, the next step is that I need to compile Qt4 and then make a package that can be used to install the IBASE plugin on other systems. I'm not really sure where to start with this. Cheers Tom
