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08-13-2009, 10:12 AM | #17 |
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Installing Sigil
I am one of these ugly pesky Linux Ubuntu jaunty users who failed in his "trivial" task. But I will not trouble you with my problems. My guess is just that the percentage of your Linux users will very probably soon drop from 9% to much less. So, don't bother about it... I wish you good luck. Last edited by roger64; 08-13-2009 at 10:21 AM. |
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Again, if you have some specific problem with building Sigil, I'd be happy to help... but you will have to provide more information than just "I failed". Quote:
If what you are complaining about is the lack of packaged binaries, then I'm sorry, but I do not have the time, resources or even the desire to package 10 - 15 different versions for all possible package managers, distros and architectures. The practice of providing installers for Windows, DMG's for Mac and source archives for Linux is very widespread. I'll just name a few of the major applications, ok? Inkscape, GIMP, Wireshark... Hell, even GCC. All of these are provided for Linux in source form only, and are provided as packages by your distribution's package maintainers, not by the developers. And they are all applications with years of history and tens if not hundereds of developers behind them. There are many, many more examples. So spare me the sarcasm. |
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hi roger,
i'm very sorry you're having trouble installing sigil, but let's not forget that valloric is spending unbelievable amounts of his own free time and effort to make a brilliant application for us for free. that is an incredibly generous initiative and i think it's worth a bit of appreciation and understanding, and maybe trying to meet him halfway so that he can spend more time making big improvements to sigil which will benefit everyone. not only is he making the extra effort to make sigil cross-plateform (not a negligeable task !), he has already said he is more than willing to try to talk you through the installation process on linux. in addition there are several linux users here who have apparently managed to install it without trouble, and i'm sure they'd also be more than willing to help you if you give more information about your problem (like the precise disto you're using, etc.). in any case i think valloric is to be applauded, and perhaps we can try to keep the appreciation to snark ratio a little more reasonable when posting here. it seems like the least we can do, under the circumstances. |
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In a computer where I don't have recent enough Qt libraries, I was able to compile and run Sigil in this way:
1. Download and compile the latest Qt libraries. No need to actually install them, but then I used "./configure -prefix .", so that qmake would use the libraries from that directory, and not the system installed ones. 2. Dowload the binary cmake 3. Download the Sigil sources. Now I have under a single directory, these subdirectories: qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2, cmake-2.6.4-Linux-i386, Sigil_code_0.1.2 4. Switch into Sigil_code_0.1.2 and run: Code:
PATH=../qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2/lib/ ../cmake-2.6.4-Linux-i386/bin/cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" 5. Run make. 6. If I didn't miss anything, now I have a working sigil binary under Sigil_code_0.1.2/bin. |
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On any modern distro this process is greatly simplified. Detailed instructions are in the source package and on the website. Usually it boils down to this: Code:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-gui libqt4-svg libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-dev cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" /path/to/source/folder make sudo make install |
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Okay, it builds fine in Ubuntu Jaunty. My problem was that I was running Intrepid and the latest versions in the repository were not the latest versions available.
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08-13-2009, 12:21 PM | #25 |
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I can be an imbecile sometimes. I should have figured it out last night. I've gotten too dependent on the package manager. It's been a long time since I've tried to build someone else's code.
It looks very nice. Great work, I've got a small project I can test it with and I'll do that this evening. Thanks! |
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08-13-2009, 03:31 PM | #27 | |
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Sorry for giving you trouble. Quote:
I replaced the last command (sudo make install), by sudo checkinstall to get a deb to be able to do a clean uninstall if needed, or allow a future smooth upgrade. I hope to be able soon to provide you with comments on the use of your software. Thanks (and karma ) for providing a tool which will be of the greatest use to a PRS-505 owner. Last edited by roger64; 08-13-2009 at 03:45 PM. |
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So all of your build problems stemmed from the fact that you didn't read the very specific and easy to follow instructions, that you flat-out can't miss. Last edited by Valloric; 08-13-2009 at 04:29 PM. Reason: typo |
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08-13-2009, 04:17 PM | #29 |
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You are free to do so, but this is rather unnecessary. Making a deb with checkinstall is useful when the install process puts many different files in many different places. Sigil's install process installs only one file: "sigil", which is placed in /usr/local/bin (this path can be changed, see the build instructions for more info).
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08-13-2009, 05:20 PM | #30 | |
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I just read the google code page here which is the first hit when you type on google "sigil install linux". I thought it was enough. Maybe, it could also be completed with libqt4-dev. http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/...onInstructions Last edited by roger64; 08-13-2009 at 05:25 PM. |
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