Alien

[promike]

Hi

I would like to install a package called kmetronome. Unfortunately, this software is not available under Debian, but I've found rpm package. I tried to convert this file with the 'alien' program. This happened in the konsole:

mike@mike-desktop:~$ sudo alien kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm
[sudo] password for mike:
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
error: incorrect format: unknown tag
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
warning: kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e3f4290b
Unpacking of 'kmetronome-0.9.0-2.29.i586.rpm' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 155.

I know that there is a program called gtick, but I prefer this.

[Rubberman]

I'd get the sources and build/install it directly on your system if there is no .deb file available.

[promike]

I downloaded the kmetronome-0.9.0.tar.bz2, then extracted, and opened the konsole.

mike@mike-desktop:~$ cd /home/mike/Letöltések/kmetronome-0.9.0/
mike@mike-desktop:~/Letöltések/kmetronome-0.9.0$ cmake .
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:1432 (MESSAGE):
Qt qmake not found!
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:35 (FIND_PACKAGE)


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
mike@mike-desktop:~/Letöltések/kmetronome-0.9.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

[Rubberman]

You need to install the Qt development tools on your system. That is the GUI framework used by KDE and a lot of applications (it doesn't require KDE). You should be able to find it in your Synaptic package manager.

[reed9]

If you don't have kde installed, you'll need to get the kdelibs as well.

[promike]

I did install the qt packages

Now the konsole message is:
mike@mike-desktop:~/Letöltések/kmetronome-0.9.0$ cmake .
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.5.2
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:84 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/home/mike/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:36 (FIND_PACKAGE)


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

[promike]

I use Kubuntu, so I have KDE

[reed9]

kmetronome has not been ported to qt4. You need the qt3 dev files.

[reed9]

Ah, you said Debian in your first post, so I was assuming Debian packages, not Ubuntu.

Since you're using KDE4 it looks like, you'll probably still need to install the kde3 libraries.

[Rubberman]

If you run "./configure --help" it should provide you with a number of options, including disabling some requirements that are causing it to fail. Without trying this myself I cannot say what they would be. Sometimes building/installing from source is relatively painless. Sometimes it is a real PITA, going so far as to require source code changes to get to build and run. At this point, consider it a learning experience...