Help with ./configure

jimt123 · June 11, 2011, 10:27pm

I am trying to install PDFedit however after un-zipping and running configure at the end i get this

message:checking whether we want to prepare pdfedit-core-dev package… no
checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui… yes
configure: error: QTDIR environment variable must be set

Can someone help

martin_helm · June 11, 2011, 11:04pm

jimt123 wrote:

>
> I am trying to install PDFedit however after un-zipping and running
> configure at the end i get this
>
>
> message:checking whether we want to prepare pdfedit-core-dev package…
> no
> checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui… yes
> configure: error: QTDIR environment variable must be set
>
>
> Can someone help
>
Look at the spec file for the rpm which is for openSUSE to see what special
settings you need to configure and compile it
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=pdfedit&project=KDE%3AKDE3
just click on the pdfedit.spec link on that page.

hendersj · June 11, 2011, 11:04pm

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:36:03 +0000, jimt123 wrote:

> I am trying to install PDFedit however after un-zipping and running
> configure at the end i get this
>
>
> message:checking whether we want to prepare pdfedit-core-dev package…
> no
> checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui… yes configure: error:
> QTDIR environment variable must be set
>
>
> Can someone help

Why not just install it from the repos? There should be no need to
compile it or build it, just go to the console prompt and type:

sudo zypper in pdfedit

I show it in the Packman repository, so you might need to add that using
YaST’s repository manager.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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jimt123 · June 11, 2011, 11:18pm

Thanks, but I learn about about linux when I try it this way, I found what I was looking for in the README file (which I should have first) and its all in there.

Cheers

ab · June 11, 2011, 11:06pm

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I’d probably ask in the Programming/Scripting forum but otherwise somehow
you’ll need to figure out what the QTDIR is and then set it before running
…/configure so the first step is to know what it is. QT is for KDE, so
are you using KDE? You may need some kde*-devel package to get something
to automatically set that, or you may just need to use a configure
parameter like --with-qtdir=/path/to/your/qtdir, though even then you need
to know which directory to point to. The responses to this other forum
post seemed to provide some interesting information:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2006/04/msg00033.html

Good luck.

On 06/11/2011 02:36 PM, jimt123 wrote:
>
> I am trying to install PDFedit however after un-zipping and running
> configure at the end i get this
>
>
> message:checking whether we want to prepare pdfedit-core-dev package…
> no
> checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui… yes
> configure: error: QTDIR environment variable must be set
>
>
> Can someone help
>
>
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