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socially teamed [sociallyteamed at yahoo.com]
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:30:59 -0800 (PST)
I am having a little trouble intsalling microsim on ubuntu 6.06 lts please help me i am very intersted in using your software thank you i get this type of message:
t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop$ cd version-1.0 t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop/version-1.0$ ./install Make microsim ... make: * No rule to make target `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. Done Change ownership ... chown: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done Change permissions ... chmod: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop/version-1.0$ su Password: root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./install Make microsim ... make: * No rule to make target `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. Done Change ownership ... chown: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done Change permissions ... chmod: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microsim bash: microsim: command not found root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microSim bash: microSim: command not found root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# make install make: * No rule to make target `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# make ./install make: * No rule to make target `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# Make install bash: Make: command not found root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./microsim bash: ./microsim: No such file or directory root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microsim.ui bash: microsim.ui: command not found root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./microsim.ui ./microsim.ui: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `<' ./microsim.ui: line 1: `<!DOCTYPE UI><UI version="3.3" stdsetdef="1">' root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./install Make microsim ... make: * No rule to make target `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. Done Change ownership ... chown: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done Change permissions ... chmod: cannot access `microsim': No such file or directory Done root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0#
Benjamin A. Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:36:53 -0500
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:54:13PM -0500, socially teamed <sociallyteamed@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am having a little trouble intsalling microsim on ubuntu 6.06 lts > please help me i am very intersted in using your software thank you
Using our software? I'm afraid you've mistaken us for someone else.
We're the Linux Gazette, and we don't publish 'microsim' or any other
software. However, we might be able to help you anyway. 
> i get this type of message: > t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop$ cd version-1.0 > t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop/version-1.0$ ./install > Make microsim ... > make: * No rule to make target > `/usr/lib/qt-3.3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.
[ The above is followed by random attempts to do... something. ]
> t0k3r@t0k3r-laptop:~/Desktop/version-1.0$ su > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./install > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microsim > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microSim > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# make install > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# make ./install > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# Make install > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./microsim > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# microsim.ui > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./microsim.ui > root@t0k3r-laptop:/home/t0k3r/Desktop/version-1.0# ./install
The place to stop would have been as soon as you saw that first error - just as the message said. The really important thing to understand about errors is that they're meant to be read and understood; the above says that the Makefile - i.e., the configuration file that's read by the 'make' utility - needs 'qmake.conf' to exist at the above location. Instead of just randomly typing more stuff and hoping that it will somehow magically work, you need to check to see if that file exists - it probably does not - and install the package that contains it.
I suggest that you read my article, "Installing Software From Source" in LG#74, where I explain, in detail, what to do when you run into this kind of problem. The important part, though, is that you *pay attention* to the error messages; without that basic requirement, nothing will help.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *