giFTcurs Cannot Connect!!

[Homer119]

I installed and everything when i type

cd /root/giFTcurs/src
giFTcurs

the screen comes on and i try to search but I get an error saying I cannot connect!!! help (look at screen shot)

I added red arrow;)

[JP83]

Is giFT server running. I guess that you have same problem i did.

[Homer119]

did? or still do

[JP83]

Did. There was problem in the giFT config default configuretion will not work (read first configuration question).

[Homer119]

read wat?

[JP83]

You need to start giFT and then start giFTcurs
commands
giFT (leave it running)
giFTcurs (to another konsole window)

If giFT says that it's not configured there are info how to do that.

[Homer119]

looked for info.....info not found ;(, but thats my prob i need to config giFT, wanna help me out?

[Homer119]

couldnt find info

can u tell me out to config giFT? cuz i know thats my problem

[JP83]

Read:

http://www.google.fi/search?q=cache:CI4ypI5-NSIC:gift.sourceforge.net/docs/%3Fdocument%3Dinstall.html+giFT+setup&hl=fi&ie=UTF-8

[sharth]

sigh. i hate crossposting. i was still helping in the old thread.

giFT-setup

[Hayl]

use this script to run giFT. it loads giFT and giFTcurs then stops the daemon after you quit giFT.
#!/bin/bash
# run giFT - stops the daemon after giFT is closed
# written by: dale_d@telusplanet.net
#
# Turn off / on giFT daemon
if ps -A | grep giFT; then
killall giFT
fi

if test -x "`which giFT`"; then
giFT &
fi

# start giFTcurs
giFTcurs

# kill giFT daemon after giFTcurs is closed
killall giFT

[Homer119]

ok i need to configure giFT think of it like this, i got the giFT.tar.gz, unziped it and stopped there! i need to install it thx fo rhelp

and by the way the webpage I got had all dead links, giFT-setup didnt work. thx for help though :D

[sharth]

ok... i have the source still. I went to the source directory, and...

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make check
make install

that webpage tells you howto do it. plan as day...

[Homer119]

ok i started over

i installed giFT from cvs everything went fine and then i entered code and this is how it went

[root@localhost root]# cd /root/giFT
[root@localhost giFT]# ./autogen.sh
Running aclocal...
Running autoheader...
/usr/bin/m4: configure.in: No such file or directory
Running autoconf...
autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory
[root@localhost giFT]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[root@localhost giFT]#


wats wrong????

[sharth]

if you got the source from cvs, then run this comand from within that folder.

cvs update

[Homer119]

did that....i get same eror!

thx for help guys ur great

[JP83]

"First things first, make sure you have recent versions of autoconf (2.5x), automake (1.4)and libtool (1.4.x). You willget fatal errors if you're using other versions. Remember to run ./autogen.shagain after upgrading one or more of those programs. "

You probably doesn't have a autoconf package installed install it.

[sharth]

and these...

libid3lib13-devel
libMagick5-devel
zlib*

for zlib, do this...
cd giFT
make -f zlib.mak
su -c 'make -f zlib.mak install'

[Homer119]

sharth cant find ur files:(

[Homer119]

yea these ones i cant find


libid3lib13-devel
libMagick5-devel
zlib*



:rolleyes:

[JP83]

But are you sure that you have these installed:
autoconf (2.5x), automake (1.4)and libtool (1.4.x).

[Homer119]

yep

[sharth]

well. for zlib, the commands are above. the source for them are right in the giFT cvs download. The other two are not required so I'm not too sure why you would be having problems. Post your error message that you get when compiling.

[Homer119]

ok everything installed i type ./autogen.sh and get this error
[root@localhost giFT]# ./autogen.sh
Running aclocal...
aclocal: couldn't open `configure.in': No such file or directory



whats wrong where is this configure.in file at???:confused:

[sharth]

should be in that folder. try redownloading the cvs. I think that it is simply missing. but before you do, try this command again.cvs update

[Homer119]

ive tried it all, y isnt giFT configuring>?

[sharth]

okay. make a new folder. in that folder run these commands as follows.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gift.sf.net:/cvsroot/gift login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gift.sf.net:/cvsroot/gift co giFT
cd giFT
./autogen.sh
make
su -c'make install'

[Homer119]

and i get this

[root@localhost giFT]# ./autogen.sh
Running aclocal...
aclocal: couldn't open `configure.in': No such file or directory
[root@localhost giFT]#

[sharth]

okay. I'm extreamly sorry for running you around in circles. I now know what your problem is. There is no configure.in. That would be your problem. What my computer has done is it gives a warning saying that there is no configure.in and then defaults down to configure.ac. So, what we need to do is find out which program you have that isin't a high enough version (most likely) and that is probably wherein your problem lies. so what I am thinking is upgrade automake (which should update aclocal)

-edit-

oh and by the way...sharth@debian:/usr/local/src/giFT$ aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.1

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
sharth@debian:/usr/local/src/giFT$

and just for the sake of things, try getting autoconf up as well.sharth@debian:/usr/local/src/giFT$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
sharth@debian:/usr/local/src/giFT$

[Homer119]

ok this is after command aclocal --version

[root@localhost aclocal]# aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.4-p1

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
[root@localhost aclocal]#

and after autoconf --version

[root@localhost autoconf]# autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.



do i need 2 update? thx

[Homer119]

these are both up to date correct?

[sharth]

try updating aclocal which should be included within automake. look for a newer rpm or download the source and install it that way .if you do install by source, make sure you uninstall the old rpm.

[Homer119]

i have latest automake.........

[sharth]

okay. aclocal needs to be updated. Lets look around for different distro's aclocal file.

source : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.tar.bz2
debian : apt-get install automake1.7

oh and by the way, you have a 3 year old automake.

[Homer119]

ok awsome everything installed everything went well, even reinstalled giFT and giFTcurs, yet still no connected i ran giFT-setup, wahts up?

[Homer119]

i ./configure giFT then I make it and i get this error

main.c:73:25: magick/api.h: No such file or directory
main.c:74:29: magick/version.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/giFT/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/giFT'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost giFT]#

am i missing somethin?

[sarah31]

you are missing imagemagick another dependency of giFT or giFTcurs.

[sharth]

For image meta data ImageMagick is used. On Debian install libmagick-dev. RPM-based distributions can use libMagick5-devel.

right from the install documentation.

[Homer119]

im sorry but this is horseshi*, i have been trying to dled all 20 of these rpm's in order to install this thing, anyone recomend a good os where rpms are not used??? or a way to get around these fuc*in pieces of shi* as*!?!?

sry guys but i had to say that, any ideas of a new OS or an rpm "loophole"

thx:(

[sharth]

apt-rpm, urpmi, red carpet are all good stuff. OR! you could switch over to debian or gentoo / slackware.

Debian uses debs. It was quite easy to install giFT, however, you still have to install giFT from source for any distro (it updates too much to do it any other way.). However, if you do pick Debian (or a different deb based distro, look into the pgi installer.), I can give you a list of things to install which can be done by one single command, nifty isint it!

[Homer119]

damn i love RH more then i can say and i dont wanna switch, but these RPMS are killing me, would u recomend switching OS or just advoding RPM?? do u know a good OS where i can excell my skills

[sharth]

I've only used Debian and Windows and Red Hat (for like a week, then tux racer crashed and i dumped it for debian).

Look into FreeBSD or some other linuxs. Peanut OS also exists. uhmm... I can't remember any others off hand.

[Hayl]

Originally posted by Homer119
damn i love RH more then i can say and i dont wanna switch, but these RPMS are killing me, would u recomend switching OS or just advoding RPM?? do u know a good OS where i can excell my skills

if you hate rpms then i highly recommend trying Gentoo, Debian, Arch, etc.