Re: ******** Video: FOSS Superiority Versus Commercial Software **********

On 12/4/2024 7:22 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 12/4/24 4:17 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

It is quite easy:
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unpack tarball
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mkdir build && cd build
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qmake5 ../MathMod.pro
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edit Makefile (if desired)
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make
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run ./MathMod (no install necessary)

  It doesn't work.
 I clicked "Download" at Sourceforge site. Unzipped it in a directory. Changed to that directory. Tried qmake5 ../MathMod.pro. Said it doesn't know what qmake5 is but I could install it with a sudo apt ... . Did that. Then same command this time said cannot find file ../MathMod.pro (it is sitting right there!).
 Then I went another route. I did sudo apt install MathMod. It said:
 Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package MathMod
 So it wants a package, and there's no package for it.
 Winblow can defecate on top of this for good reasons :)

Welcome to the wacky world of Linux.  This kind of time-wasting bullshit (hassles when compiling from source because there's no Linux executable available) is what makes people HATE Linux and leave it for a long time or never come back.  It's very irritating.
I downloaded the Windows .exe file, clicked a few times and was running the app within 1 minute.
On Linux (kali linux on Windows WSL2):
downloaded the source .zip file
$ unzip mathmod-12.0-source.zip  (OK, makes dir mathmod-12.0)
Feeb left out a step.  At this point you need to change to the newly created directory:
$ cd mathmod-12.0
then carry on:
$ mkdir build && cd build   (OK)
And now the Linux fun starts:
$ qmake5 ../MathMod.pro
Command 'qmake5' not found, did you mean:
   command 'qmake' from deb qtchooser
   command 'qmake6' from deb qmake6
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
$ sudo apt install qmake6
[sudo] password for dfs:
Installing:
   qmake6
Installing dependencies:
   qmake6-bin
Summary:
   Upgrading: 0, Installing: 2, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
   Download size: 770 kB
   Space needed: 3,013 kB / 1,022 GB available
Continue? [Y/n]
Err:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot/main amd64 qmake6-bin amd64 6.4.2+dfsg-21.1+b1
   404  Not Found [IP: 18.211.24.19 80]
Err:2 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot/main amd64 qmake6 amd64 6.4.2+dfsg-21.1+b1
   404  Not Found [IP: 18.211.24.19 80]
Error: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/q/qt6-base/qmake6-bin_6.4.2%2bdfsg-21.1%2bb1_amd64.deb   404  Not Found [IP: 18.211.24.19 80]
Error: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/q/qt6-base/qmake6_6.4.2%2bdfsg-21.1%2bb1_amd64.deb   404  Not Found [IP: 18.211.24.19 80]
Error: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Then I spent 10 minutes running
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get upgrade
$sudo apt install gcc
$sudo apt install g++
$ qmake6 ../MathMod.pro
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: core gui opengl widgets openglwidgets
It's just one missing file error after another after another after another.
Not interested in wasting more time, especially since I have MathMod running on Windows already, easy peasy.
This!  Is!  Linux!