(possibly OT)Install probs under RH9,

[chefmark]

Dear all,

so far I have tried 3 different downloads,
first file deleted so I can not detail it here, but

Num2 was celestia-1.3.1.tar.gz (size=12938kb),

Num3 (after searching on this fine site) was celestia-cvs.latest.tgz (size=13098kb)

Each time I get the same error from ./config

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checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log


but locate qt-mt shows this:

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/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.1.1
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.1


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less config.log


says nothing about these errors. I have tried the with/without options from ./config --help under gnome2.0 and kde 3.1

I have searched the various threads looking for similar issues and rtfm to the best of my (limited) ability

I apologise if this post is not strictly Celestia related.

Could somebody point me towards a working tarball/rpm/FAQ which will help me get this up and running

Thank you,mark

[Harry]

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checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log


You need the headers, which probably are in the development package ("qt-devel" ?). This problem may repeat with other libraries.

Could somebody point me towards a working tarball/rpm/FAQ which will help me get this up and running

You can try using the Mandrake or SuSE RPMs and see if they work. I assume RH9 uses a current gcc, so the SuSE8.x RPMs (from sourceforge.net) won't work. So either try the Mandrake one (which AFAIR requires an additional RPM containing the Lua-libs) or the SuSE9 one from my site (http://www.h-schmidt.net/celestia/rpm/) which have Lua compiled in statically.

HTH,

Harald.

[Guest]

I got the same error with ./configure --with-kde
I put in RH9 install cd1, ran autorun, and installed the kde software development package. This supplies the kde headers needed and the qt headers in qt-devel. I found I also had to install the libart-lgpl-devel rpm from a terminal. It's on the 2nd RH install cd. Config worked after that. Make takes a while and gives lots of warnings; but it works.
The kde version gui runs slow on my 400 and 500 mhz PCs, so I'll try ./configure --with-gtk next. I may have to install the gnome software development package for that.

[t00fri]

Could somebody point me towards a working tarball/rpm/FAQ which will help me get this up and running

Thank you,mark

Mark,

it would be good to find out whether you are a "beginner" and presumably the problem is somewhere in your installation. You should not forget that all of us developers (running quite different version of Linux:
Mandrake (Christophe), RedHat (Chris), SuSE8.x (me), SuSE9.0(me, Harry))

compile the CVS tarball virtually every day without the slightest problems! Don't you agree that this looks as if it is not the "tarball that does'nt work" but rather that some library or header file is missing on your machine.

In order to find out, let me ask you how many complex QT3/KDE/OpenGL applications you have already compiled before Celestia on your machine? One possibility would be to download another tarball from another QT3/KDE/OpenGL application and try to compile it with your setup. I would risc to speculate that you will get a very similar error...

Bye Fridger

[chefmark]

(snip)
..... Don't you agree that this looks as if it is not the "tarball that does'nt work" but rather that some library or header file is missing on your machine.(/snip)


Bye Fridger

My apologies if my wording was inappropriate.

As you correctly guessed I am quite new to Linux, and after reading through the thread "Celestia 1.3.1 is available" it seems that others have downloaded incomplete tarballs so I thought perhaps that was the case for me also.

Thanks to all for the suggestions,

mark

[Guest]

I got the same error with ./configure --with-kde
I put in RH9 install cd1, ran autorun, and installed the kde software development package. This supplies the kde headers needed and the qt headers in qt-devel. I found I also had to install the libart-lgpl-devel rpm from a terminal. It's on the 2nd RH install cd. Config worked after that. Make takes a while and gives lots of warnings; but it works.
The kde version gui runs slow on my 400 and 500 mhz PCs, so I'll try ./configure --with-gtk next. I may have to install the gnome software development package for that.

I installed the gnome software development package and glut-devel; but the gtk version still will not compile. If I do ./configure, I get the kde version. I can get the glut version with ./configure --without-kde --without-gtk. The command ./configure --without-kde sets up for the gtk version, but fails during make.

[Guest]

From another post, I learned that the 1.3.1 gtk version is not working yet, just the kde and glut versions:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... 5&start=15

[chefmark]

Got it working today, hopefully this will help anyone else having similar probs to mine. I have a very slow connection, so even an 11 or 12 meg download is quite a big deal


**WARNING, I AM QUITE A NEWBIE, THIS WORKED FOR ME BUT TAKE IT WITH A PINCH (POUND?) OF SALT**

RH9, kernel 2.4.20-8

Downloaded and installed glut-3.7-13.i386.rpm (had to use --force because it was looking for a dependent file) ~81K

Downloaded and installed glut-devel-3.7-13.i386.rpm <--that was the one it was looking for ~182K (as reported by Mozilla 1.5)

Both above files from rpm.bone.net

They are quite small files (important for me on a 19.2 dial-up connection )

As root in /usr/local/celestia-1.3.1/

./configure --without-gtk --without-kde --with-gl-inc=/usr/include/GL/


After make, make install finished (Oh the joy!) I tentatively typed celestia and.....


Wow beautiful, awesome, incredible,

Hope this helps, and once again many thanks to all

mark