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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I promise I'll get to the 32-bit version sometime soon, but I'm done with uploading/downloading/compiling for today.  |
Oh, rats. I was too impatient, and having heard no screams of frustration from linux users over the first few days, I went ahead and built 0.8.6 from source. Actually, it went rather painlessly, following the instructions in the zip file (in contrast to older builds, which required a lot of serious prayer, some cmake secret incantations, and the sacrifice of a goat or chicken to succeed
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NB: I'm running Kubuntu 14.04.2, aka Trusty Tahr (our standard shop linux environment), so I did have to install cmake 3.x first, as well as Qt5.4.1. That went fine. The rest of the standard Trusty build environment seems to be adequate.
I did notice one glitch in the instructions: if they are followed literally, the cmake source code directory should be
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$ cmake [blah blah] ~/sigil-x.y.z/src/Sigil-0.8.6
instead of
$ cmake [blah blah] ~/sigil-x.y.z/src
and in my situation, I chose to set the install directory to
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-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
for a global installation, and therefore used the following commands after the cmake command completed:
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$ make
$ sudo make install
I was then able to use
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$ sudo make linuxbinpkg
to make a deb file for installation on other machines without having to separately install Qt5.4.
I realize, of course, that's what you're about to do anyway, but I mention the above in case anyone else may be trying to install from source.
And in closing, a big Thank You! for your efforts in supporting us linux users for quite some time! I've often benefited from your builds -- and advice.
All the best,
Albert