On Wednesday 12 September 2007 09:07:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Running apt-get build-dep will still help, as it installs all the > > prerequisites for building the package that already exists. I'd expect > > that the newer package would still need most of these. > > > > QT libraries are a bit funny, though, and there may be some > > incompatibilities there. You usually have to specify a path to > > libqt-mt.so.3 and the header files (assuming that you need the > > multi-threaded verion of QT) > > It took me a while to get around to doing it, but build-dep worked fine. > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep qdvdauthor > $ ./configure > $ make > $ sudo make install > > I've now got a compiled version of the latest qdvdauthor running on > feisty. Thanks.
Now be cute, (sorry I don't do the sudo spring madness, but this is surely correct) sudo apt-get install checkinstall Then run ./configure make sudo checkinstall This builds a deb package. James PS info for anyone who shares my sentiments: SET ROOT PASSWD first, then /etc/sudoers # Defaults Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,rootpw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
