installation instructions

Installation instructions

This page will guide you through the installation process of Serial Communicator.

The installation instructions are actually only available for Linux platforms. Sorry Windows users ;)
The compilation shall work under windows, but you will have to help yourself for the whole installation process.

To know what will be installed and where, see [Where to find SerialCommunicator's files].

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Prerequisites / What do you need to install Serial Communicator from source ?

• Administration rights
• A subversion client to download the sources (the following instructions are for subversion)
• Qt development environment/libraries

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HowTo

If you don't have any svn client, install subversion:
~# su -c "apt-get install subversion"

Once you got all the prerequisites needed, go to the folder you want to download the sources in, eg ~/Downloads, and download them from SerialCommunicator's Sourceforge repository:

~# cd ~/Downloads
~/Downloads# svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sercomm/code-0/trunk SerialCommunicator_src


Now move to the sources directory:

~/Downloads# cd SerialCommunicator_src


And build the application and plugins:

SerialCommunicator_src# qmake SerialCommunicator_and_plugins.pro
SerialCommunicator_src# make


Finally, do the installation (administration rights needed):

SerialCommunicator_src# su -c "make install"


Now you shall find Serial Communicator in your applications menu :)

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Troubleshooting

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This page was created by GOM on 2013-04-24 14-00-00