ShowEQ related downloads for RedHat 7.1/7.2 users

[Zaphod]

Qt 2.3.2 RPMs compiled with Gcc 3 for RedHat 7.1/7.2 are available at http://www.doomed.to/showeq/

The two RPMS you need for ShowEQ 4.0 are qt-gcc3-2.3.2-1.i386.rpm and qt-gcc3-devel-2.3.2-1.i386.rpm which are also being mirrored under ftp://azriel.trifocus.net/pub/redhat .

To install the RPMs use the following command:

rpm -ihv qt-gcc3-2.3.2-1.i386.rpm qt-gcc3-devel-2.3.2-1.i386.rpm

These RPMs install Qt under /opt/qt-gcc3-2.3.2 so adjust any instructions you are following to use that path. These were compiled with the version of G++ 3.x included with RedHat 7.2.

I've also included a handy dandy shell script for the bash/sh users in the audience called '/opt/bin/useqt232'. Just source it as follows:

$ . /opt/bin/useqt232

To setup the appropriate QT environment variables.

You still need to set the compiler related environment variables for configuring and compiling ShowEQ though.

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dophaZ)

[lostpacket]

Works great!! Full install of RH 7.2 and ShowEQ down to 20 minutes now.

It's so beautiful *sniff*

[joeseq1999]

Zaphod:

Thank you for this help. I am new to Linux and I am struggling a lot.

If you have a minute, would you kindly post the rpm commands needed to use your rpms? I am unclear what command options I need.

It is this line that I think I don't understand:

"These RPMs install Qt under /opt/qt-gcc3-2.3.2 so adjust any instructions you are following ..."

I think you mean that the install is under the indicated directory.

Thank you and I am sorry to waste your time. SEQ is a learning expereince for me and I greatly appreciate your time.

[casey]

type this

"man rpm"

and read it

[joeseq1999]

Casey,

I did. That is not the problem for me. My problem is that I don't know if anything special is needed for these RPMs. I have no idea how they were made or if anything needs to be done when using them.

The line in the message about the RPMs is strange to me and I am trying to make sure I understand.

[casey]

and rpm is an rpm is an rpm is an rpm.

It is a standard file format

man rpm, tells you how to use the program rpm which uses these standard files.

If you read the manual (man rpm) you know how to use rpm to manipulate rpm pacakges.

zaphod posted at rpm.

an rpm is an rpm is an rpm is an rpm

it is a standard file format

you know how to use rpm (from above)

use rpm to install the rpm.

[Zaphod]

What I mean by "These RPMs install Qt under /opt/qt-gcc3-2.3.2 so adjust any instructions you are following ..." is that if you are following one of the various install guides found within these forums that may refer to paths such as "/usr/local/qt-2.3.2", or "/usr/lib/qt-2.3.2" that you should use the path "/opt/qt-gcc3-2.3.2" instead.

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[joeseq1999]

Zaphod,

Thank you greatly sir. That was my confusion. However, it looks like you changed something in the last CVS so I think it works with the old dir structure.

Casey,

I have a suggestion for you now. If you really want to be a "developer" do one of the following:

a. When you see several questions all nearly about the same issue (like the changes in directories in this last series of versions), try to find a way to answer the bigger question. Telling people to RTFM is not going to make all dozen threads go away; or

b. Go take a course on interpersonal communication so you can become a functioning professional.

You will note, Casey, that Zaphod did two things: He put up a new CVS that fixed the "problem" (the directory thing); and he answered the questions he got politely and effectively. You, on the other hand, just caused further waste of bandwidth with your arrogant and unprofessional manner. Don't be sending me any resumes Casey.

[Ratt]

I think we need a SEQ pool on how long it takes Zaphod to get where Casey and I are.

Sure, he's helpful and cheery now, but you just wait Thousands of clamoring, whiney people will wear down the stoutest individual over time.

I got $100 on 90 days.

[fryfrog]

hahah, i hate to go and help defend ratt... :) but i think he's right. pretty much everyone starts out being all nice and stuff, but eventually answering the SAME questions, over and over again will wear you down. sure, casey was a little rough on ya... and could have been nicer... but its his right to be a dick eh? :)

just don't take shit on the internet personally. its that simple. if someone is a dick on the forums, ignore their posts (well, all of the post that doesn't really contain any useful information) and resist the urge to reply back. eventually, if you don't reply to the dicks (no offense, i'm not really talking about casey here) they won't post anything... and if they do, it will quickly move from the top :)

anway, hope ya get your seq4 working and stuff.

[SEB9000]

Just some words :

Zaphod you are great !
Thank you a lot for those nice RPMs !

Seb9000

[FuddRucker]

EDIT - Woot, nevermind, I figured it out, thank you rpmfind.net.
---
OK, I'm getting dependencies errors when putting in these packages...

can't find the following 3 files:
libgcc_s.so.1
libstdc++.so.3
libgcc_s.so.1

Umm, I assume these are part of a gcc package. can anyone point out what I may need to install to make these files available?

Also, do you have to use qt2.3.2, can you use qt3.0.0? when I ran ./configure under qt3.0.0 it gave a ??? responce that it "might" work. Was hesitant to try it though.

[YAN]

I encountered the same problem..and what it listed as dependencies seemed rather non-rpm sounding...like the name was truncated. What did you do to solve this?

Yan

[FuddRucker]

Basically it wasn't too hard...

I went to http://www.rpmfind.net and searched for the libgcc and libstdc++ packages that were listed.

I downloaded the "RawHide 1.0 for i386" Distrabution closest to the top of the list, if that isn't there look for the "RedHat-7.2/1 for i386" and download that file.

use

rpm -ivh <filename>

to install the packages, if it gives you an error you may need to upgrade with:

rpm -Uvh <filename>

After you get those files, try to install Zaphoid's, and keep in mind that you may need to use upgrade. I did, but only because I had attempted to install his files ignoring the warnings. Ya also need to run that script that he mentions above that installs the enviornment variables.

Try your ./configure, you may have to reboot or something.

Fudd

[T1homas]

Dear Zaphod,

Thank you for all of the work you have done here on the board.

Might I ask you, however, as someone with no programming or Linux experience how do I d/l several remaining RPM's need for RH 7.3 and more importantly, how do I then install them? Is it all done by code?

Using the current version of RH 7.3, it appears that I still need gcc3-c++, gdbm, kernel-headers, libgcc, libstdc++3 and zlib.

Can these packages be found at www.redhat.com/errata? And how do I d/l them and install them?

Please pardon my ignorance in this matter