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On 12/4/2024 7:22 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 12/4/24 4:17 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
>> It is quite easy:
>>
>> unpack tarball
>>
>> mkdir build && cd build
>>
>> qmake5 ../MathMod.pro
>>
>> edit Makefile (if desired)
>>
>> make
>>
>> 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!