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Hi, I would like to compile some cool toys and utilities from this repository. (It's the official Linspire 5.0 source repository). http://software.linspire.com/pool-src/los/

The problem is that I can't work out how to compile anything from there. The first thing I would like to try is the Linspire KDE clear theme which I would like to install in my current distro (which is Kanotix).

It can be downloaded from here

Normally I just do ./configue, make and make install - and this works pretty good. But there is no 'configure file' in these packages.

This repository also contains ltunes and lphoto - both of which are good apps and both of which I would very much like to try. (It's all GPL BTW).

Any input on how to compile these apps would be very much appreciated.

GJ

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Strange, this Install instructions for that package say

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type

    `./configure' to configure the package for your system.  If you're

    using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type

    `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute

    `configure' itself.

    Running `configure' takes a while.  While running, it prints some

    messages telling which features it is checking for.

  2. Type `make' to compile the package.

  3. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and

    documentation.

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Am I going crazy or something? Here is a list of the files in that archive.

I just downloaded again to check.

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AUTHORS      INSTALL         Makefile.calls.in  README        autom4te.cache   decoration
COPYING      MakeVars        Makefile.cvs       TODO          config.h.in      stamp-h.in
COPYING.LIB  MakeVars.in     Makefile.rules     acinclude.m4  configure.files  style
ChangeLog    Makefile.am     Makefile.rules.in  aclocal.m4    configure.in.in  subdirs
Doxyfile     Makefile.calls  NEWS               admin         debian

Where exactly do you guys see the configure script in that list?

There are a few files called configure.xyz but they are not the configure script. Did any of you even try running configure on these files before posting?

I read the docs, I did what I have done 1000 times before (./configure, make make install and so on), but I keep getting a message that there is no such file called configure - which there is not. Configure is normally a script on it's own, it doesn't have any additional extensions. It is just 'configure'. Plain and simple.

The readme mentions some utility called automake that needs to be run in order to generate the configure script, but it does not give the syntax on how to run it in order to generate configure.

If anyone has any ideas or knows how to do this, I would very much appreciate your input.

GJ

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Am I going crazy or something? Here is a list of the files in that archive.

I just downloaded again to check.

dir
AUTHORS      INSTALL         Makefile.calls.in  README        autom4te.cache   decoration
COPYING      MakeVars        Makefile.cvs       TODO          config.h.in      stamp-h.in
COPYING.LIB  MakeVars.in     Makefile.rules     acinclude.m4  configure.files  style
ChangeLog    Makefile.am     Makefile.rules.in  aclocal.m4    configure.in.in  subdirs
Doxyfile     Makefile.calls  NEWS               admin         debian

Where exactly do you guys see the configure script in that list?

There are a few files called configure.xyz but they are not the configure script. Did any of you even try running configure on these files before posting?

I read the docs, I did what I have done 1000 times before (./configure, make make install and so on), but I keep getting a message that there is no such file called configure - which there is not. Configure is normally a script on it's own, it doesn't have any additional extensions. It is just 'configure'. Plain and simple.

The readme mentions some utility called automake that needs to be run in order to generate the configure script, but it does not give the syntax on how to run it in order to generate configure.

If anyone has any ideas or knows how to do this, I would very much appreciate your input.

GJ

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It seems to me that there are a few steps missing in there. Wouldn't surprise me that they would make it a bit difficult to get it on your own. Unfortunately it is beyond me right now what to do with it.

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The problem is that I can't work out how to compile anything from there. The first thing I would like to try is the Linspire KDE clear theme which I would like to install in my current distro (which is Kanotix).

To generate the config file type the following in the Linspire Clear subdirectory:

make -f admin/Makefile.common

You might get some error messages about make being out of date. If your automake is truly higher than 1.6 then just edit cvs.sh and take out the "exit 1" statements under the KDE automake check.

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Solved:

Download and extract the package then once in its source directory since there is a debian directory with a rules file in it, fakeroot debian/rules binary this should compile and generate a .deb package that you can install. (look one directory level up from the drirectory you ran this command in for the .deb). BTW if have you heard of apt-file? You are probably going to need it to get all the -dev packages will need to build the package if/when you get error about not finding such and such file. You will need to look to see which compiler tools are missing and which you need to fetch via apt.

Works like a treat. Now you can have anything that Linspire provide (So long as it is GPL).

GJ

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To generate the config file type the following in the Linspire Clear subdirectory:

make -f admin/Makefile.common

You might get some error messages about make being out of date.  If your automake is truly higher than 1.6 then just edit cvs.sh and take out the "exit 1" statements under the KDE automake check.

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Cool, I hope that works for non Debian systems too. :)

What is very cool though is I now have lphoto, lsongs - and quite a few other neat things from Lindows. All legal and free. It may not be what they want, but since it is all GPL, I don't think they have much choice.

BTW for those who are interested (you only have to go up a level to find it) these are the two most interesting directories.

http://software.linspire.com/pool-src/

http://software.linspire.com/pool-src/l/

I hope this helps someone. :)

GJ

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