Unable to compile 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty

[Spencer Wise]

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I ran 3.2.0 successfully, and it pretended it was registered to my H.323 gatekeeper, but actually wasn't. 3.2.4 lists a gatekeeper fix, so I followed the wiki to compile the SVN snapshot, and all went fine with no errors. But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells me Ekiga's not installed.

Has anyone done this successfully? Is 3.2.4 supposed to work with Jaunty? Is the wiki page outdated?
-Spencer

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[Christian Jaeger-6]

> But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells me Ekiga's not
> installed.

You're short on details; how do you try to start Ekiga from terminal? Like, if you use an upper-case E the program would quite surely not be found. "it tells" is also unclear, like, what did the shell, which is normally run in a terminal, tell you? Then the question is how which install location you  configured (./configure --prefix=somepath), and what the current PATH environment variable is (echo $PATH). If the error is a linker error (the error message shown in the terminal should tell you so), it may be necessary to run ldconfig as root to update the dynamic library cache, or to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you installed Ekiga in a non-root location.

Christian.

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[Christian Jaeger-6]

PS.

> I followed
> the wiki to compile the SVN snapshot,

since Ekiga, as far I can see, is being tracked in Git, not SVN, the question also coming up is which packages have you compiled and installe: ptlib, opal, *and also* ekiga itself?

> But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells me Ekiga's not
> installed.

And you did't try to start it from the same shell in which you previously started the pre-packaged Ekiga? Since if you did, the shell would probably have remembered the location of the previous install, then if you run "ekiga" again, say that it's missing. Rehash the shell's file cache (shell specific) or simply start a new shell (/terminal). And/or use the full path, like /usr/local/bin/ekiga or accordant to your configuration settings.

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[paul hillereau]

Spencer Wise a écrit :
> I ran 3.2.0 successfully, and it pretended it was registered to my
> H.323 gatekeeper, but actually wasn't. 3.2.4 lists a gatekeeper fix,
> so I followed the wiki to compile the SVN snapshot, and all went fine
> with no errors. But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells
> me Ekiga's not installed.
>
> Has anyone done this successfully? Is 3.2.4 supposed to work with
> Jaunty? Is the wiki page outdated?
> -Spencer
Hello,

Could you send us the error?

Currently I am not running ekiga 3.2.4 but the stable version from git
repository; everything works fine on Sid and Jaunty. See
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Download_Ekiga_sources to get the latest
ekiga stable version.

Did you adjust your PATH to launch ekiga, or give a prefix at configure
time? e.g. if you gave --prefix=/home/mylogin/root when configure, after
compiling and make install to start ekiga you have to do the following:
cd /home/mylogin/root/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mylogin/root/lib
./ekiga

Paul.
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[Spencer Wise]

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Christian/Paul,

Thanks to both of you for the help. I followed the wiki page at:
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_Ubuntu

And ran autogen.sh with - -  prefix=/usr - - sysconfdir=/etc/ exactly as described in the wiki. I tried the command Paul suggested:
cd /usr/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
And it completed without error, but I still get the following error in terminal no matter where I try it from.

spencer@spencer-desktop:/usr/bin$ ekiga
The program 'ekiga' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ekiga
bash: ekiga: command not found

spencer@spencer-desktop:/usr/bin$ ./ekiga
bash: ./ekiga: No such file or directory

As I'm sure is painfully obvious already, I come from primarily an MS/Windows background and am still pretty lost in Linux/Ubuntu.

> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:26:34 +0200
> From: pflanze@...
> To: ekiga-list@...
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Unable to compile 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty
>
> PS.
>
> > I followed
> > the wiki to compile the SVN snapshot,
>
> since Ekiga, as far I can see, is being tracked in Git, not SVN, the question also coming up is which packages have you compiled and installe: ptlib, opal, *and also* ekiga itself?
>
> > But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells me Ekiga's not
> > installed.
>
> And you did't try to start it from the same shell in which you previously started the pre-packaged Ekiga? Since if you did, the shell would probably have remembered the location of the previous install, then if you run "ekiga" again, say that it's missing. Rehash the shell's file cache (shell specific) or simply start a new shell (/terminal). And/or use the full path, like /usr/local/bin/ekiga or accordant to your configuration settings.
>
> Christian.
>
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[Christian Jaeger-6]

> I followed the wiki page at:
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_Ubuntu

Interesting, in that this suggests to check out Ekiga from SVN. I've tried "svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ekiga/trunk ekiga" and compared to what I got from Git. It seems that the SVN repo (r7862) has last been updated on April 15, and that this version corresponds to Git commit 807740337f4d9853878b9f2419abe40ddbe2a406, and that from that point in time on the project has transitioned to using Git (r7862 and older has been imported into Git). This means that the above wiki page should be updated to check out Ekiga from Git instead, as shown on http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Download_Ekiga_sources (ptlib and opal are still tracked in SVN as it seems).

(Also note that you might prefer to check out the "gnome-2-26" branch from Git, as mentioned on Download_Ekiga_sources--although that's the branch I'm currently using and running into sound problems with (haven't checked "master" yet)).

>
> And ran autogen.sh with - -  prefix=/usr - - sysconfdir=/etc/ exactly as
> described in the wiki. I tried the command Paul suggested:
> cd /usr/bin
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
> And it completed without error, but I still get the following error in
> terminal no matter where I try it from.
>
> spencer@spencer-desktop:/usr/bin$ ekiga
> The program 'ekiga' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install ekiga
> bash: ekiga: command not found
>
> spencer@spencer-desktop:/usr/bin$ ./ekiga
> bash: ./ekiga: No such file or directory

So ekiga is not in the place it should be (which should be where you tried). This sounds to me like you forgot to run the "sudo make install" step, or that this step failed.

Run "sudo make install ; echo $?", this will print the exit code of the make install step in the end, which should be 0 if everything went ok; otherwise, look at the messages from the make install, it should give a clue about what went wrong (disk full, maybe?).

> As I'm sure is painfully obvious already, I come from primarily an
> MS/Windows background and am still pretty lost in Linux/Ubuntu.

Welcome in the new land.

Christian.

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[Eugen Dedu]

Christian Jaeger wrote:

>> I followed the wiki page at:
>> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_Ubuntu
>>
>
> Interesting, in that this suggests to check out Ekiga from SVN. I've
> tried "svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ekiga/trunk ekiga" and
> compared to what I got from Git. It seems that the SVN repo (r7862)
> has last been updated on April 15, and that this version corresponds
> to Git commit 807740337f4d9853878b9f2419abe40ddbe2a406, and that from
> that point in time on the project has transitioned to using Git
> (r7862 and older has been imported into Git). This means that the
> above wiki page should be updated to check out Ekiga from Git
> instead, as shown on
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Download_Ekiga_sources (ptlib and
> opal are still tracked in SVN as it seems).

The problem is that there are 4 pages about compiling ekiga, as shown at
the beginning of http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compiling_Ekiga .  This
latter page is the generic one (but works on any architecture) and is
always up to date.

I will put on the other pages that they might be slightly outdated.

Eugen
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