Re: [Tellico-users] tellico installation not going well

[Thomas Ronayne]

    Hi

    I appreciate your time to respond to my request, but this just doesn't seem
    to be helping. I seem unable to unpack the file at all, although a bunch of
    stuff goes by very fast in the terminal. I also hear my computer doing some
    beeping at times when I attempt this.

    I do not know what all of the required packages would be or how to install
    them. I also would appreciate it if you could perhaps present each terminal
    command one line at a time and if you could let me know what response the
    terminal should give me so I at least know that I am on track.

    I am basically a real newbie to Linux and installing this has been very
    challenging. Perhaps you can provide me with more details as to how I should
    be doing this and what I need before installing Tellico 2.0. Thanks, Shawn
     

OK, no big deal -- let's see if we can figure this out.

The file you download, tellico-2.0.tar.bz2, is a compressed archive of
all the files that make up Tellico. The archive is a "tar" archive (tar
is an acronym for "tape archive" that goes back to when back ups where
done to large reels of 1/2" tape -- you see those being "computers" in
old movies and television shows) and the way it's compressed is with a
utility called "bzip."

Now, when you run the command to unzip, "bunzip2 -c tellico-2.0.tar.bz2
| tar -xvf -" you'll see lots of stuff flying by on the screen (the list
of files in the archive, exactly what's supposed to happen). The files
are being extracted from the archive and put into a directory named
"tellico-2.0" and when the stream stops, if you run "ls" you'll see the
original file, tellico-2.0.tar.bz2, and the directory created by
extracting all the files, tellico-2.0.

You run "cd tellico-2.0" (to change directory).

Then you need to prepare the files you extracted; that's done with a
utility named "configure" with a couple of arguments (options) that tell
the configure utility how to prepare a file of instructions for another
utility to do the actual work. The file of instructions is named
"Makefile" (don't worry about that, it's done automatically). So, the
next step is the run the configure utility like this: "configure
--enable-final --disable-debug" and there will be a lot of stuff flying
by on the screen.

When that finishes (it'll take some time) and if there are no errors
(like missing required utilities -- see the Tellico web page about
those) -- the Makefile is created and you're ready to actually build
Tellico.

That's done with the "make" utility; you simply type "make" on the
command line, hit the return key and watch still more stuff fly by.

If all goes well, make will finish with no errors and you'll be ready to
install what you just... uh... made. You do that, and you must do that
as the super user (root) or you must use the sudo utility (because
you're going to install Tellico in system directories that you as an
ordinary user would not have permission to write into). So, let's say
you're going to use the sudo utility and you would enter "sudo make
install" to install Tellico.

Now, if any of the above fails it will probably be because of missing
required utilities (most likely Yaz won't already be there). On the
Tellico web page there is a list of required utilities and you can click
on the links there to go to another web page where they can be
downloaded and then installed exactly the same as described above; i.e.,
unzip - configure - make - make install. One difference would be the way
an archive is compressed; the ".bz" extension on the Tellico archive
means "bzip," if the extension is ".gz" it means the archive was
compressed with "gzip" in which case you unzip with "gunzip -c
archive-name | tar -xvf -"

Take it slow and you'll probably be all right.

Hope this helps some.

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[robbystephenson]

On Monday 05 October 2009, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> Then you need to prepare the files you extracted; that's done with a
> utility named "configure" with a couple of arguments (options) that tell
> the configure utility how to prepare a file of instructions for another
> utility to do the actual work.

Like the rest of the KDE4 world, Tellico uses cmake now. There is no longer
a configure script. To build Tellico in the source directory, within that
directory, type cmake . and the period there is important. It says to build
the current directory.

The rest of your email is pretty helpful...

> When that finishes (it'll take some time) and if there are no errors
> (like missing required utilities -- see the Tellico web page about
> those) -- the Makefile is created and you're ready to actually build
> Tellico.
>
> That's done with the "make" utility; you simply type "make" on the
> command line, hit the return key and watch still more stuff fly by.
>
> If all goes well, make will finish with no errors and you'll be ready to
> install what you just... uh... made. You do that, and you must do that
> as the super user (root) or you must use the sudo utility (because
> you're going to install Tellico in system directories that you as an
> ordinary user would not have permission to write into). So, let's say
> you're going to use the sudo utility and you would enter "sudo make
> install" to install Tellico.
>
> Now, if any of the above fails it will probably be because of missing
> required utilities (most likely Yaz won't already be there). On the
> Tellico web page there is a list of required utilities and you can click
> on the links there to go to another web page where they can be
> downloaded and then installed exactly the same as described above; i.e.,
> unzip - configure - make - make install. One difference would be the way
> an archive is compressed; the ".bz" extension on the Tellico archive
> means "bzip," if the extension is ".gz" it means the archive was
> compressed with "gzip" in which case you unzip with "gunzip -c
> archive-name | tar -xvf -"
>
> Take it slow and you'll probably be all right.
>
> Hope this helps some.
>
> _______________________________________________
> tellico-users mailing list
> tellico-users@...
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/tellico-users

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