Re: [quackle] At last, successfully installed - was Still can't install Quackle 0.92 on Linux

[John O'Laughlin]

Usually when you make desktop shortcut or taskbar button you can set a working path or working directory. That's how I've done it.

On 6/24/06, Graham Bonham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thanks to Anand for pointing out that "The current version of KDE
(3.5.x) is based on qt3, and so Fedora Core 5
ships with qt3 as standard. If you simply type "qmake", you're most
likely running qmake from qt3, instead of qt4."
and for spelling out exactly the command I needed to enter to run the
Qt4 version of qmake on Fedora Core 5.

Thanks to Alec Berryman for raising the point that I might be using the
Qt3 version of qmake and for packaging Quackle for Debian. Thanks to
Waylena McCully for offering hope in reporting successful installation
of Quackle on Debian testing. And thanks, of course, to the authors of
Quackle.

I now have Quackle 0.92 installed on Fedora Core 5 and Suse 10.1. No
doubt I've ended up with the installations in unusual locations:
/tmp/quackle-0.92 in Fedora and /home/graham/Documents/quackle-0.92 in
Suse. However, they work.

I struggled initially to make Quackle easy to launch but have got over
that. When I created a desktop icon for launching Quackle which linked
to path/to/quackle-0.92/quacker/quacker I eventually got as far as
getting the icon to launch Quackle but when I tried to start a game the
error message "Quackle cannot load its data files, including lexica.
You'll need more mojo." appeared. I got over this by creating a batch
file to change to the quacker directory and execute ./quacker. I turned
an ordinary text file into an executable batch file by right-clicking on
its icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Permissions tab and
clicking in a checkbox labelled "Is executable". I found, from
entering, in a terminal, printenv PATH, that /home/graham/bin was in the
path in my installations of both Fedora Core 5 and Suse 10.1, so I put
the batch file there. I could then start Quackle from a terminal by
entering the name of the batchfile, which could be something short. I
could also link a desktop icon to the batch file so that Quackle could
be started by clicking or double-clicking and now Quackle, run from a
desktop icon, worked. I presume Quackle looks for its data files at
locations relative to the current directory, so won't work properly if
the current directory isn't quacker. Just guessing.

Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > The current version of KDE (3.5.x) is based on qt3, and so Fedora Core
> > 5 ships with qt3 as standard. If you simply type "qmake", you're most
> > likely running qmake from qt3, instead of qt4. Try to run it like this
> > instead:
> >
> > # QTDIR=/path/to/qt4 qmake
>
> Aarghh. I shouldn't try to give advice after midnight. The correct
> command should have been:
>
> # QTDIR=/path/to/qt4 /path/to/qt4/bin/qmake
>
> I've just installed qt4 from the FC5 extras repository, and I've seen
> that it installs in /usr/lib/qt4, so you should run:
>
> # QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4 /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake
>
> --
> Anand
>
>

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