complete noobie question re kopete

jgoodwin

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Thursday, January 15th 2004, 4:47pm

Ok, I've just got hold of Fedora 1, installed the NTFS stuff (yay

), got my mp3's playing, and now I'm trying to get Kopete working. Thing is I'm a little stuck. - I have downloaded kopete 0.8 beta 2, and un-ziped it, and tar'd etc. I go to create the ./configure with options

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./configure --prefix=/usr ; make ; make install
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now the configure part appears to work, but when it gets to make, I get the following errors -

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ar: /home/jez/Download: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [libkopeteui.la] Error 9
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete/ui'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

so.... what am I doing wrong? what should I do to get kopete installed? - I have tried reading the other forum posts, but affraid as a noobie, its all gone right over my heard!

cheers in hope...

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liquidat

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Thursday, January 15th 2004, 7:43pm

Well, you read my posting about the rpm i had build for fedora, didn't you?
Why don't you download it and intsall it? Its much easier and looks up the dependencies for you...

For your compiling problem: please post some few lines about the first error with "No such file or directory" and the complete line with this error.

liquidat

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jgoodwin

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Thursday, January 15th 2004, 11:10pm

Cause I want to know how to build and install source code as well as using rpms.

With regard the error messages:

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Making all in ui
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete/ui'
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -o libkopeteui.la -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib -L/usr/lib kopetecontactaction.lo addcontactpage.lo editaccountwidget.lo kopetestdaction.lo kopetefileconfirmdialog.lo userinfodialog.lo kopeteview.lo kopetepassworddialog.lo kopeteawaydialogbase.lo kopetefiletransferui.lo fileconfirmbase.lo ../private/libkopeteprivate.la -lkhtml -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -L/usr/lib -lxslt -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm
ar: /home/jez/Download: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [libkopeteui.la] Error 9
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete/ui'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jez/Download Files/kopete-0.8beta2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

hope that helps?

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liquidat

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Friday, January 16th 2004, 4:40pm

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Original von jgoodwin

Cause I want to know how to build and install source code as well as using rpms.

If you want to use the self-compiled software as an rpm (very useful to share with other computers or to have an eye on your dependencies), you should have a look at checkinstall.

For the make:
The Problem is, that somewhere is the string '/home/jez/Download' is given to ar, but it must be '/home/jez/Download Files'.
So, a workaround could be to copy all to directory without blanks, maybe it works - if it works, please post a note here and write a bugmessage.

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jgoodwin

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Friday, January 16th 2004, 5:12pm

well the make file goes through correctly now, and I can install kopete.

However, after I run kbuildsycoca and ldconfig in root and then kbuildsycoca as my normal account, then type in kopete, it will autocomplete the name, but then say

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jez]$ kopete
bash: /bin/kopete: No such file or directory

- does this in root aswell as my normal login

HOWEVER. If I run it from the run command off KDE startbar, it works??!

What I have noticed is that it doesn't auto add the ability to read the text in the message boxs - u need to configure the chat window.

Other than that, appears to work

- great!! - cheers for your help. btw... where do I write the bug message to?

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liquidat

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Saturday, January 17th 2004, 2:46pm

Well, the fact, that it first complete the "kopete" and then does not start it is really mysterious - hit tab two times, then it sowhs you what words beginning with "kopete" you can type.
Maybe its a directory?

The binary is in /usr/bin/kopete, and thats no standard binary path, i think.
So you can only start it with typing "/usr/bin/kopete" or through the icon.

For the bug:
check kopete.kde.org, there will be a bug link on the left side, under development. Go through the bugs listed there, and try to find it - if you do not find it put it in there.

Greetings,

liquidat