From quanta Wed Mar 08 12:40:09 2006 From: Carl Hartung Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:40:09 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] VPL inoperative in SuSE 10.0 Message-Id: <200603080740.09443.suselinux () cehartung ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=114182307625032 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 04:59, JL Morris wrote: > I am currently running Quanta Plus 3.4.2 on SuSE 10.0. I am very happy > with the operation and ease of programming that Quanta provides, even > though I haven't yet taken full advantage of all of it's capabilities. > One problem I have run into involves the VPL function. All I get is a > blank window in VPL mode, even with simple HTML. In the split VPL/Editor > mode, I get the source editor in the lower half of the window, but > nothing in the VPL section. Is there some setup that is unique to SuSE > or anything I can try to achieve proper VPL operation? Thanks for any help. Hi Lee, I had stability problems and quirks with Quanta+ similar to what you describe. I upgraded to 3.5 when I upgraded KDE and many of these problems went away. Then I saw Andras' post last Saturday, followed the instructions and asked a few questions and I was able to download, compile and install the latest stable version and I'm really happy with it. regards, Carl Here are the relevant excerpts of my thread regarding that process: (sorry, it's faster to quote than clean it up and rewrite... too busy this a.m.) Thread start: > > Hi, > > > >  As Quanta from 3.5 branch got some big fixes during the last days > > (and probably this trend will continue), I would like to request > > everyone who is not afraid of compiling from source, to download > > the latest snapshot from > > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots/ or better check out > > the svn version according to > > http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/faq.php#svn_version. (Use > > svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kdewebdev .) > > > > The revision you get must be later than 515803 and Quanta should > > identify itself as 3.5.2. My inquiry: > > Hi Andras, Hi All. > > > > I'm running a 'stock' SUSE 9.3 installation with KDE upgraded to > > 3.5.1 level "a". I've got this project underway in ~/kdewebdev/ and > > have some questions: > > > > First, I'd appreciate it if one of you could please tell me what > > flags/parameters are needed when I run ./configure so I can avoid > > hosing my system. It's an AMD K7 that seems generally happiest when I > > use i586 and i686 'flavor' rpms. Response: > Nothing special. For SuSE I recommend: > --prefix=/opt/kde3 --enable-debug=full > > The last one to help in case of crashes, altough your binary will be > bigger. This will overwrite your SuSE version, but if you have real > problems (you shouldn't as 3.5.1 has much bigger ones), you could > simply reinstall the RPM. > Is it necessary for me to uninstall my current version(s) of Quanta+ > and/or kdewebdev? > No, just overwrite it with the above one. > > Also, the revision I've downloaded is 515863 (in case that matters.) > It doesn't matter if the number is above 515803. It just means that > there were 60 more (not Quanta related) commits to the KDE subversion > server in the meantime. > > Andras > > On Sunday 05 March 2006 03:22, Carl Hartung wrote: > > > Very good, Andras... thanks for the timely reply! - Carl > > > > Addendum: > > > > First error: > > > > "checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes." > > > > What libraries need to be installed? Sorry, I forgot to ask this with > > my previous questions. > You need some -devel packages (at least for X, Qt and kdelibs, maybe > kdesdk). See the README file. ;-) > > Andras > > Thanks Andras, > > > > ./configure, make and make install worked great. I tried to follow > > along behind that with checkinstall to keep the rpm database > > consistent. > You don't have to, as make install will not touch the RPM database and > will not install anything else what you already had. And of course, you > run make install as root, didn't you? > > Andras _______________________________________________ Quanta mailing list Quanta@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta