Qtella compile error

[arioch]

I just installed libranet 2.0 (based on debian 3.0 but newer) and when i try to install qtella 4.2.0 from tar.gz i get a message saying 'ERROR...moc. not found'. I want to locate all my additional software i my home dir. How do i tell linux to look there?(that's assuming the prob is location related).

[Wallex]

A couple of things...
If libranet is based off Debian, why are you trying to install something from source? Use the power of apt-get. You should be able to apt-get something like qtella... Secondly, as for 'how to tell Linux where something is' is a rather broad term. I guess what you basically want to do is specify the location of a certain file to a certain program at install time? When you ./configure, you have optional parameters, like ./configure -prefix=some/dir, you can usually use these parameters to specify where your dependencies are installed (if they aren't installed where they normally would be). Use ./configure -help for more info. moc... I wonder what's that... I guess it's just another dependency that needs to be installed.

[arioch]

since the latest version of just about any software isn't released as a package first but as a tarball, I didn't have much choice, and the previous version had an annoying commonly known connection issue that rendered it more or less useless.

thanx for replying:cool: