Super Slow Software Installs

**kidlogic** · 01-12-2005

I have encountered this twice now while installing software with the make install command. First off, I downloaded Konstruct to update my KDE to 3.3. I did all the procedural things properly, but once I began the "make install" it took over two hours to finish.
Secondly, I had to download Qt 3 to satisfy the KDE installation, and again, same thing; after "make install" it has been 2 hours plus (as I'm typing this) and it still hasn't finished installing. No error messages or anything, the software is installing correctly, but it's just taking forever. When I run urpmi, I have absolutely no problems at all. Everything installs fairly quickly, but when I have to do the tarball thing, I'm sitting here for hours watching the terminal. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

A little about my setup (and don't laugh!)
Dell Dimension
Celeron 500mhz
320mb ram
C: 12.6 gb Maxtor @7200 (WinXP)
D: 80gb Maxtor @7200 (12gb Linux ext2 partition, 640mb swap, the rest is just files and folders on fat32)
Mandrake 10.1
KDE 3.2

**puntmuts** · 01-12-2005

urpmi uses precompiled packages so there's no compiling involved which takes a lot of time when compiling large packages (qt) and very large packages (konstruct/kde) . To compile complete KDE it will take about 3-4 days of compiling on your machine.

**valan** · 01-12-2005

Yeah, all of KDE and Qt is probably 100 MB of source code or more, that takes a helluva long time to compile on older machines.

**kidlogic** · 01-14-2005

Well, the problem I'm having now is even though I've installed Qt3.3, Konstruct says I don't have it on my machine. Perhaps I'm in over my head trying to install KDE on my own.

**puntmuts** · 01-14-2005

Did you try installing QT using your pacakge manager or did you compile it from source ?
Could be that your missing some parts of QT, maybe you'll have to install a QT-devel package as well. This is only valid when you did install packages using your package manager.

Could you provide more information about the error ?

**valan** · 01-14-2005

If you installed Qt in a non standard place (ie not /usr or /usr/local), you'll need to set up some variables. Put these in /etc/profile, or somewhere where all users who will be compiling things using qt will be able to find them:

QTDIR needs to be set to the directory you installed Qt into
PATH must contain $QTDIR/bin
would be helpful to include $QTDIR/man in MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH should contain $QTDIR/lib , or add the directory to ld.so.conf

Make sure you export these variables.

Sometimes, you still might need to give some options to ./configure like '--with-qtdir=/somewhere/qt' and '--with-qt-includes=/somewhere/qt/include', but you should check './configure --help' to see what it says about that.

**kidlogic** · 01-14-2005

Well, I got it to find and recognize my Qt files, now I get this message:

You're missing bzip2 development files.
make[2]: *** [configure-work/kdelibs-3.3.2/configure] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/konstruct/kde/kdelibs'
make[1]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdelibs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ron/konstruct/kde/kdeaccessibility'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ron/konstruct/kde/kdeaddons'

I have the kdelibs that it says are missing, unless I'm misreading the error message. Very frustrating indeed!

**puntmuts** · 01-14-2005

You're missing bzip2 development files. <-- that's the error. Solution: install the bzip2-devel package

**kidlogic** · 01-14-2005

Thanks. Sometimes the obvious is not so obvious to me.

**WhiteNite** · 03-11-2005

This is awfully late, but you probably should investigate a tool in konstruct called "detektive" if you are installing KDE 3.4. It will tell you all the packages you need to install for successfull compilation. It works for SuSE 8.1+ and Mandrake 9.1+.

Go to <path>/konstruct/misc/detektive and type "make".

It will report all required and recommended packages, which you can use urpmi then to install.

Here is an excerpt from my experience:

Code:

Detected Mandrake 10.1 as distribution.

Checking for known uninstalled rpm packages which may be missing&#58;
 Package&#58; byacc &#40;REQUIRED&#41;
 Package&#58; libungif4-devel &#40;REQUIRED&#41;
 Package&#58; libbzip2_1-devel &#40;REQUIRED&#41;
 Package&#58; libsmbclient0-devel &#40;RECOMMENDED&#41;
 Package&#58; xpdf &#40;OPTIONAL&#41;
  "Required by PDF kfile-Plugin"

And then to get everything installed:

Code:

root@myserver detektive&#93;# urpmi byacc libungif4-devel libbzip2_1-devel libsmbclient0-devel xpdf

Hope that helps!

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