Help me install dcgui please

[inha]

I installed Mandrake 10.0 download version a few days back and there's something going wrong in my attempts to install dcqui. Since there's no specific pack for 10.0 I have to compile the source code, right?

I've got all the rpms needed libqt3, pthread, libxml, libssl, libbz2 , libxml2-devel, libqt3 and libqt3-devel.

 

When installing libqt3 I get this "Some package requested cannot be installed:

libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied qt3-common[== 3.2.3-19.1.100mdk])

do you agree ? ". The other ones install without any complications.

 

After clicking ok on that one I proceeded with the installation according to the instructionshere. After going through the installation I tried to run it but apparently nothing had been installed. the directory I'm supposed run it from is completely empty (/usr/local/bin/dcgui-qt, there's nothing in the bin dir).

 

A lot of data went through the sceen when I was compiling the dclib and dcgui. There were some error notifications but the processes finished just nicely.

 

Can anyone help me out with this? I can copy/paste the stuff I got my screen later if that's neccessary. I've got to go now but I can do the whole thing again once I get back home in a few hours.

 

Thanks in advance.

[pmpatrick]

Let me give you one word that's going to make your life a lot easier on mandrake: "urpmi". Urpmi is mandrake's system for automatically resolving dependencies for rpms. All you need to do is set up certain internet repositories of mandrake rpms as sources and urpmi will automatically download the needed rpm dependencies and install them in the correct order for any package that you want to install, provided that the package is in one of the repositories.

 

Go to this page and follow the instructions for setting up a "plf" and a "contrib" source for urpmi:

 

http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/

 

"Plf" has dcgui in it's repository so all you need to do after you set up these sources is open a console, su to root and run:

 

# urpmi dcgui

 

If you prefer graphical tools for installing software, once you set up the plf and contrib sources, all packages in plf and contrib will be listed in the mandrake control center software installation program, rpmdrake.

[inha]

Thanks for your help. I finally got it installed and this urpmi seems like a really helpful tool.

[Guest lightoller]

Hi!

 

I've a different problem instead: when I had mandrake 9.1 I worked a lot with dc-gui so now, with my new 10.1 OE installed, I went on the plf server and I installed dc-gui 0.3.

it seems to work, after the installation I can find it in the "start" menu

but it doesn't work at all

when I try to start the application, Linux says "starting dcgui..." and I can even see the splash screen, but no more

after a bit, it all disappear

same thing with dctc and dcgui 2 or dcgui for gtk, with or without firewall

internet works fine, (Mozilla, ftp, kmail, bittorrent).

could anybody help me?

Edited December 7, 2004 by lightoller

[arctic]

open a terminal and start the program from the command line (=type "dcgui"). you will get some messages there, telling you what went wrong. post the info in here, please. (i almost guess it is a library or permission problem)

[Guest lightoller]

Hi, and thanks for replying :D

 

here are the results...

 

[matteo@charmed-host matteo]$ dcgui-qt

Checking xml version ...

Compiled for '20609' using '20613'

Checking dclib version ...

Using '0.3.3'

Checking qt version ...

Compiled for '3.3.2' using '3.3.3'

Checking qt privates ...

private test ok !

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/matteo/.dc/dclib.cfg"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/matteo/.dc/dcprof.cfg"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/matteo/.dc/dchub.cfg"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/matteo/.dc/dcgui.cfg"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/matteo/.dc//emotes.xml"

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/dclib/emoticons/emotes.xml"

CListenManager: start listen

dcgui-qt: symbol lookup error: dcgui-qt: undefined symbol: _ZN10CHubSearchC2Ev

 

do you think I've any chances of getting it work?

 

thanks!

[arctic]

dunno. it is compiled with a lower version of qt as you can see. thus, the config-files do not work properly. you "could" downgrade your qt and xml, but i would not do it. it could (i guess it definitely will) break a lot of other programs.

[Guest lightoller]

dunno. it is compiled with a lower version of qt as you can see. thus, the config-files do not work properly. you "could" downgrade your qt and xml, but i would not do it. it could (i guess it definitely will) break a lot of other programs.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

:o

compiling from the tar.gz would help?

[arctic]

compiling from the tar.gz would help?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

only if the program was originally programmed in a way that it can be compiled with several library versions. some coders do that, others don't. you can give it a try. if it won't it will almost surely tell you that it is a library problem again.

[Guest lightoller]

so I'll try :-)

if it doesn't work, I'll wait for the new version

sigh

 

thanks again!

[adamw]

arctic: looks to me like it's looking for default config files that may or may not exist and just warning when they aren't there. dcgui-qt: symbol lookup error: dcgui-qt: undefined symbol: _ZN10CHubSearchC2Ev is the vital error that actually stops it working. I think your suggestion of the libs being incompatible is correct regardless, but it's not the config files that are the problem :)