Qt frontend for f-prot

[JohnT]

A Qt frontend for the F-prot anti-virus application. First download and set up F-prot, then compile QtFprot 0.2.1. make and install. Nice GUI.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10381

[JoeyJoeJo]

Dude, thats one of the coolest things I've seen! I love f-prot, and a GUI will be awsome.

[JohnT]

Yea,F-prot is one of my favorite apps and this makes it that more enjoyable to use. All the features are there.:D

[catman]

I followed the instructions, but have one small problem!

I do not have a clue how to do/run a make-file.

Yep, every attempt that I have made has been a complete mess :o

So, is there any kindly soul who is prepared to tutor me on this, so that i can also have the nice GUI that you others have :D

I thank you in advance :)

Any pointers/tips to get me going in the right direction would be appreciated!

[JohnT]

cd to the working directory and issue the command./make

[catman]

-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 330689 Jun 27 2003 acinclude.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 348022 Jun 27 2003 aclocal.m4
drwxr-xr-x 2 charles charles 4096 Jan 20 2003 admin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 charles charles 4096 Jun 27 2003 autom4te.cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 3817 Jun 18 2003 config.h.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 charles charles 740003 Jun 27 2003 configure*
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 41 Jun 27 2003 configure.files
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 2727 Jun 27 2003 configure.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 289 Jun 27 2003 configure.in.in
drwxr-xr-x 3 charles charles 4096 Feb 14 16:07 doc/
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 9274 Feb 14 15:30 Doxyfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 18009 Jul 15 2001 GPL.license
drwxr-xr-x 2 charles charles 4096 Jun 20 2003 icons/
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 1604 Feb 14 16:18 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 1018 Jul 7 2003 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 450 Oct 29 2000 Makefile.dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 19226 Aug 11 2003 Makefile.in
drwxr-xr-x 2 charles charles 4096 Feb 14 16:11 po/
drwxr-xr-x 3 charles charles 4096 Feb 14 16:11 qtfprot/
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 4687 Feb 14 16:11 qtfprot.kdevelop
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 29722 Feb 14 16:11 qtfprot.kdevelop.pcs
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 2256 Aug 11 2003 qtfprot.kdevprj
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 1795 Feb 14 16:11 qtfprot.kdevses
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 0 Jun 27 2003 stamp-h.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 15 Jun 27 2003 subdirs
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 675105 Jun 18 2003 tags
drwxr-xr-x 2 charles charles 4096 Feb 14 15:30 templates/
[root@localhost qtfprot-0.2.1b]# ./make
bash: ./make: No such file or directory
[root@localhost qtfprot-0.2.1b]#

Above is the error that I get when issuing the ./make command.

Where did I go wrong? And what have I done wrong?

I ran into trouble with the tar command as well vis : tar xvfz qtfprot-0.2.1b.tar.tar got message child like errors or something to that effect!

[JohnT]

I'm not at home I'll have to take a look at the file to tell you how to run it. Check here later.

[JohnT]

Did you by any chance try to compile...before...running ./make? You have to run the command./configure before you run ./make, then when ./make has completed you have to run ./make install.

[catman]

Originally posted by JohnT
Did you by any chance try to compile...before...running ./make? You have to run the command./configure before you run ./make, then when ./make has completed you have to run ./make install.

I did and this what it says......
[root@localhost qtfprot-0.2.1b]# configure
bash: configure: command not found

So I must be doing something wrong or I am a complete.....dunce

[cybertron]

Unless you have . in your path (generally a bad idea), you need to do ./configure instead of configure.

[catman]

Originally posted by cybertron
Unless you have . in your path (generally a bad idea), you need to do ./configure instead of configure.
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that was right on the money ./configure ran, but told me I needed C compiler installed, so I am installing C.

Will see what happens next!:) :D

[catman]

Originally posted by cybertron
Unless you have . in your path (generally a bad idea), you need to do ./configure instead of configure.

While on the subject of . in your path, how do I get rid of it?
How do I stop the system from putting a . in the path by default?

[cybertron]

Yep, sounds like you need gcc. Your distro must be package based or it would definitely install it automatically.

Removing . depends somewhat on your distro. Make sure that it isn't included in your path variable assignment in the ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or /etc/profile files. There may be some other places to look too, but those are the main ones on my system.

However, I don't think you need to worry about it if it couldn't run configure without the ./ because that means that it wasn't searching the . directory for programs to run. Most distros these days don't automatically include . in the path because of the security risks.

Try doing "echo $PATH" and see if . is in there. I bet it isn't.

[catman]

1. I am running Mandrake 9.1, yes it's package based.

2.[root@localhost qtfprot-0.2.1b]# echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
( I trust that the above line makes sense to you, cause it don't make sense to me..)

3. This is the next error I got:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes.
Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

What know?

I do not understand what this error means, any ideas?

I am not sure what to do now!

[cybertron]

Good deal, you're running the same distro I am. That error means you need to install the XFree86-devel (or something similar to that) package in drakconf.

[catman]

Originally posted by cybertron
Good deal, you're running the same distro I am. That error means you need to install the XFree86-devel (or something similar to that) package in drakconf.

Shall look a duly report back, Thank You

[catman]

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

Thats after installing XFree86-devel, and having it remove about 25 other files including Mozilla,
so I am back to the drawing board!

Seems like I am a sucker for punishment!:D

[cybertron]

Hmm. It shouldn't have had to remove all those packages to install devel, at least I don't think so. What other XFree packages do you have installed?

[catman]

I lost my X dispaly, mozilla and evolution!
So it's back to the drawing board for me, no train smash.
I will get it sorted out again, just have to repair my installation again :)

Then try again, seems that it is unable to find my X display, someting about not finding it.
All is not lost, just a learning curve thats all.

Thanks for all your time and trouble.
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Sorry I just had to fix all the typo's that I had made:D


Shows that it was far to late in the day for me!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by catman
I lost my X dipaly, monzilla and evolution!
So it's back to the rawig board for me, no train smash.
I will get it sorted out again, just have to repair my insstall again :)

Then try again, seems that it is unable to find my x display, someting about not finding it.
All is not lost, just a learning curve thats all.

Thanks for all your time and trouble.

Good attitude.....I cant begin to tell you the re-installs I've done, but its all in the learning, each time.:D
Next time you get ready fro F-prot. lets go through it step-by-step.

[cybertron]

Absolutely. You have to have a good attitude to make it in linux, but it's definitely worth it.

BTW JohnT, I love your peer sig.:)

[clane]

Tried installing the QT Frontend. Had problems:
1. downloaded qtfprot-0.2.1b.tar.bz2
2. Untarred/decompressed using tar -jxvf qtfprot-0.2.1b.tar.bz2 (I tried using tar -zxvf, but got an error message, tar -jxvf worked).
3. CD'd to qtfprot-0.2.1b
4. entered ./configure ..................Got partially through the process, then got errors:
configure: WARNING: libjpeg not found. disable jpeg support.
checking for QT... configure: error: QT (> = QT 3.1 (20021021)) (headers and libraries not found). Check your installation!

I was running an older version if F-Prot, so I deleted it and installed the latest version of F-prot. that didn't fix the problem. I also installed jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz. I thought that would fix the libjpeg portion of the error, but it didn't. I also installed qt-x11-free-3.3.1.tar.gz. No change.....same error as mentione in number 4, above. So now I may have 2 problems. The original problem as described in 4 above, and "what the hell did I just install and do I need to delete those last 2 apps?

[JohnT]

You are running KDE? Do as the message says........ QT... configure: error: QT (> = QT 3.1 (20021021)) (headers and libraries not found). Check your installation!


What version of KDE are you running? Check your QT version? This app has been recently optimized for KDE 3.2.......you might have to look at your MAKEFILE and change the path for QT if you have some kind of odd setup.

[clane]

Actually, I'm running WindowMaker. How do I find the version of QT that I am running and how do I change the path in the makefile? That's something that I've never had to do before?

EDIT
I found this package in my RPM config screen (Mandrake 9.0):
libqt3-3.05-7mdk
Is that the QT version or is ther some other file/package?
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[catman]

make[2]: *** [qtfprot] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/charles/Downloads/qtfprot-0.2.1b/qtfprot'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/charles/Downloads/qtfprot-0.2.1b'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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The next episode of the comedy of errors :D

Anyone know what the above means? :confused:

The ./configure went okay...........for a change!!!


But the make threw up those errors! :)

[catman]

Here is the full list of errors that I got from make.

I trust that this might help.:D

[JohnT]

Actually the only error I see, aside from some typing mistakes on commands:D ...is the "cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfam.la" inclusion. Have you tried locating the file "libfam.la"? Is it on your system? Probably, but in a location wher the make program can't find it. Look in /usr/lib and see if it is there, if so add the path to your /etc/ldconfig, then reboot. I'm including a link to a turorial on software installation that would be good just to copy and keep handy as a reference when you need one. We cant remember everything all the time.:D Installation (http://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-3.4/docs/mini/Software-Building)

[catman]

I thank you most kindly, I have made a note of the link and copied the contents, for latter reading. I trust that this will do away with most of my software building headaches :D

Thank you very much :D

[catman]

I am happy to be able to announce that with the help of my dear friends, I also have a nice graphic interface for F-Prot as of 2004-03-11 23:50
:) -:)


Thank You all very much, special thanks to JohnT:D -

[JohnT]

Originally posted by catman
I am happy to be able to announce that with the help of my dear friends, I also have a nice graphic interface for F-Prot
Thank You all very much, special thanks to JohnT

Excellent.....:D Here's a new terminal font if you'd like to use it.....it's a TTF..enjoy.