Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Configuring the source code.

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, blucalvin <blu...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was my mistake that I didn't know that tuxmath could be run from anywhere
> once installed.

As long as the installation location is in your $PATH, and
/usr/local/bin and /usr/bin should both be in it.

>>
> I have run "sudo make install". But still the music isn't playing.
>
>>
>> > The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was:
>> > Unrecognized music format
>>
>> >Maybe you don't have all the needed libraries.
>
> Which libraries' absence might be causing it?

I think libmikmod (see my other message).
>>

> I tried "sudo make uninstall" from the build directory. The command
> "tuxmath" works no more. But the files in /usr/local/share/tuxmath are still
> there. The fonts, sounds, etc.

That shouldn't be the case - all the files installed by "make install"
should be removed by "make uninstall" - if not, that is a bug.  Are
the files themselves there, or just empty directories?  IIRC,
sometimes "make uninstall" leaves some empty directories behind.


> I first tried "apt-getting". But it said "Couldn't find packages". That's
> why I build the required ones from source.

You need to specify the exact name of the packages you need, and you
need to install the "*-dev" versions of the packages so that you get
the headers as well as the executable lib code.  The way to do this is
to first search with apt-cache, find the exact package names, and then
install them with apt-get.  Ubuntu definitely has everything you need
(apart from gettext-0.18, as noted elsewhere).

> Will sudo make uninstall, uninstall the packages I
> installed from source? But unlike the "build" directory in tuxmath, this has
> got no "build" directory. So from where can I run sudo make uninstall if
> that's the way to do it?

You run it from wherever you ran "sudo make install" for that package,
i.e. the top-level package directory if you didn't make a separate
build directory.

David