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I was asked to give a helping hand for building Guymager under OpenSuse and the software it depends upon. As I am usually working with Debian or Ubuntu, I had to learn myself how to do it under OpenSuse.

This article is the result of my tests. I'm not sure if I did it the way it should be done under OpenSuse. Feel free to correct anything you like while you go through this little workshop.

System setup

  • Download OpenSuse 13.2 (openSUSE-13.2-DVD-x86_64.iso)
  • Create a virtual machine (1GB RAM, 8GB HDD)
  • Install OpenSuse
    • Check "Add online repositories before installation"
    • Choose the KDE desktop (most Suse users' favorite)
  • Boot the new system and install updates (if any)
  • Open a shell (konsole)
  • Install required packages:
    sudo zypper install gcc-c++ subversion zlib-devel libqt4-devel parted-devel udisks

Download and unpack the source code

Create working directory and get the source code:

mkdir workshop
cd workshop
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/guymager/code/ guymager-code
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/libguytools/code/ libguytools-code
wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libewf/libewf-20100226.tar.gz/a697d629bb74df1fa68f22658634fdb9/libewf-20100226.tar.gz
tar xvzf libewf-20100226.tar.gz

We also could have used the libewf package contained in OpenSuse, libewf-devel. It would have been the correct way to follow. However, in order to be complete and to follow the instructions on the Guymager homepage we choose the hard way in this workshop ;)

Build everything

We now have everything ready to build/install the two libs and the main program.

libewf

Compile and install libewf the classical way with configure/make/install:

cd libewf-20100226
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
cd -

libguytools

  • libguytools requires two passes, one for the dynamic and one for the static library:
    cd libguytools-code/tags/tools-2.0.3/
    ./create_version_file.sh
    qmake trunk.pro
    make
    qmake toolsstatic.pro
    make
  • The static library and the header files need to be copied to the default path.
    sudo cp lib/libguytools.a  /usr/local/lib64/
    sudo cp include/* /usr/local/include/
    cd -

Guymager

  • In Guymager, the library paths in file guymager.pro need to be adapted:
    cd guymager-code/tags/guymager-0.7.4
    kwrite guymager.pro
  • Scroll to the end of the file where you'll find the lines starting with "LIBS". Comment out the two lines for libewf and libguytools and add new ones. It should look like this: 
    #LIBS += -lewf
    #LIBS += -lguytools
    #LIBS += /usr/local/lib/libewf.a
    #LIBS += /usr/lib/libewf.a
    #LIBS += /usr/lib/libguytools.a
    LIBS += /usr/local/lib64/libewf.a
    LIBS += /usr/local/lib64/libguytools.a
    LIBS += -lz
    LIBS += -ldl
  • Create the Makefile and compile it:
    qmake
    make -j4

Guymager should now be ready to run. But first, let's put its configuration and executable files to the default locations:

sudo mkdir /etc/guymager
sudo cp guymager.cfg /etc/guymager/
sudo cp guymager /usr/local/bin/

Start it:

kdesu guymager

Guy