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Revision as of 22:01, 22 March 2009
What is this "Linux" You Speak Of?
These instructions have been tested on
- Ubuntu
- Slackware
Please add to the list if you have tested on another distribution.
This Sounds Hard... Why All The Steps?
Because of the rich variety of Linux distros that grace our planet we need volunteer support to maintain good "packages" for each one. That's the best route... then no documentation is needed for install. Short of that, Linux users simply have to build VirtualT themselves. Of course the benefit of building it yourself is that you always have the latest and greatest features, and of course bugs... but that's what makes life exciting, right?).
A side benefit is that it increases the amount of people on the latest and greatest. That means more testers of new features. If you have a version that works well for you, keep that in mind before you
cvs update
to get latest and greatest.
Download Latest VirtualT Source FOR THE FIRST TIME
Open a command prompt and type:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@virtualt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/virtualt co -P VirtualT
Download Packages FLTK Depends On
sudo apt-get build-dep libfltk1.1
Download, Build FLTK dependency
VirtualT depends on the FLTK library. FLTK is hosted at http://www.fltk.org/software.php . Download a version of fltk. These instructions were developed with fltk-1.1.7 . Decompress the package.
Change directory into fltk-x.y.z
Configure and make fltk:
./configure --enable-localjpeg --enable-localzlib --enable-localpng
make
Updating to Latest VirtualT
cvs update
Building VirtualT
cd into VirtualT.
ls
If you see a folder named vt_client, remove it
rmdir vt_client
export FLTKDIR=/where/is/fltk-x.y.z
make
then make should work.
You should end up with a file titled 'virtualt' in your build directory. You can launch it by typing
./virtualt