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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] VPL inoperative in SuSE 10.0
From:       Carl Hartung <suselinux () cehartung ! com>
Date:       2006-03-08 12:40:09
Message-ID: 200603080740.09443.suselinux () cehartung ! com
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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

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