On Monday 18 June 2007 02:41, Jim Caughran wrote: Hi Jim,
> Okay. I've got computer experience going back to vacuum tubes, but I > just installed Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago. I like it so far. There > are some things that puzzle me, such as installing applications. > > I checked Synaptic for the modules you mention in > http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/quackle/message/981 > and installed them all from the Ubuntu repositories. But they > disappeared after installation -- there's no trace on the menus, and > while I found the installed files in /usr/share, I don't know how to > use them to compile Quackle. The reason why they don't appear in the menus is because none of those packages are actually applications. They're all libraries and the related header files. You're never going to execute a library, so it doesn't appear in the menus. What you _are_ going to do is run the relevant commands to compile Quackle on your system. The compiler will link the application against the Qt library (amongst other things). > Other modern compilers I've used work from a development environment. > Trolltech may have such a thing on their website, but it's going a > little too far afield to trace it down and figure out how to use it. > I'm fine with learning how to use the compiler; learning other stuff > takes more time than I'm eager to spend. Well, you don't need a development environment in order to compile Quackle. You just need to download the source code, unpack it, and follow the instructions in the README file in order to compile it. In message #981, I forgot to mention that you also need to install a package called "scons", because it's not installed by default on Ubuntu. > How do I create a menu entry for Qt4? How do I use it to compile > Quackle? Like I said, you don't need to create any menu entries for Qt4. Once you've installed it, as well as scons, and unpacked the Quackle source code, and made the one-line edit I mentioned in message #981, open a terminal window (this should be in the menus somewhere), and run: $ cd quackle-0.95 $ scons r=1 $ cd quackleio $ qmake; make $ cd ../quacker $ qmake; make And that's it! Now you'll have an executable program called "quacker" in the quackle-0.95/quacker directory. To run it, you can open a terminal window, and type: $ cd quackle-0.95/quacker $ ./quacker You can make it easier by creating a little shell script, which you can name run_quackle.sh: #!/bin/sh cd quackle-0.95/quacker exec ./quacker You can save this in your home directory, or on the desktop, and then just double-click on it to run Quackle. If you feel even more adventurous, and you can find your way around the Gnome desktop, you can even create a menu entry for this shell script, which is what I've done, but I won't go into that, since that is no longer about Quackle. -- Anand
