[SOLVED] Installing a Modified Package

[NewWorld]

Hi I'm trying to install a modified version of the 'pdftohtml' utility found in the 'poppler' package, which as the name suggests converts PDF files into the HTML format.

The modified version I am trying to install is found here, and is differenet from the original utility packaged with poppler, because it outputs to HTML files optimised for eBook reading on the PDA.

I tried overwriting the original pdftohtml util with the common './configure', 'make', 'make install' commands, but it wouldn't work. Untarred the .tar.gz. Changed directory to the program folder, and had a go at installing the program.

NOTE: If it's any help, the 'Makefile' file contains the 'Compile flags' for installing...

danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$ dir
config.h      HtmlFonts.h   HtmlOutputDev.cc  parseargs.c  pdftohtml.cc
DCTStream.h   HtmlLinks.cc  HtmlOutputDev.h   parseargs.h  pdftozip
HtmlFonts.cc  HtmlLinks.h   Makefile          pdftohtml.1
danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$ sudo ./Makefile
[sudo] password for danb:
sudo: ./Makefile: command not found
danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$ make
g++ -O2 -Wall -I. -I/usr/include/poppler   -c -o pdftohtml.o pdftohtml.cc
make: g++: Command not found
make: *** [pdftohtml.o] Error 127
danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
danb@danb-laptop:~/Documents/wkt_pdftohtml$

As you can see I totally failed, can anyone help me install this?

Btw, at the bottom of the program's homepage it says:

The changes to the main poppler tree have been returned as diffs to the maintainers of poppler. So, use this version until the changes get absorbed back into the main poppler tree.

Does anyone know what this means?


Thanks all for reading this

[Partyboi2]

It looks like you don't have to run ./configure, so just run make, but it also looks like you haven't got g++ installed, so try

sudo apt-get install build-essential

then run make again.

[chrisdeckard]

Read this for general info on compiling a package. Since Ubuntu is somewhat Debian-ish, this will still apply.

http://www.aboutdebian.com/compile.htm

-Chris

[NewWorld]

It looks like you don't have to run ./configure, so just run make, but it also looks like you haven't got g++ installed, so try

sudo apt-get install build-essential

then run make again.

I installed 'build-essential' and ran 'make' again, but spewed out pages and pages of errors It seems that I'm missing a library(s) that prevents me from successfully compiling this program, trouble is I don't know how to find out which libraries I need :S

@Chris: I read the relevant parts of the article you linked, and now I know more about the process. THank you

EDIT: Here you can see the errors I get when I run 'make': http://nopaste.info/dea2a49a3f.html

[Partyboi2]

Looks like you need to install libpoppler-dev package

sudo apt-get install  libpoppler-dev

[NewWorld]

Yay, I've solved! I went on IRC and a person named Striek has kindly helped me from start to finish. It took about 1-2 hours to figure it all out. So a great big cheer to him.

The reason I couldn't compile was that I didn't have the required libraries. All in all I had to run these commands:

sudo apt-get install gimp
sudo apt-get build-dep poppler-utils
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-dev
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9-dev

NOTE: I installed the poppler and poppler-utils packages too, they're certainly neccessary for the whole thing to work.

This installed the required libraries for the compile to take place. When it compiles you might get a lot of warning, but as long as there no errors it'll compile. Once successful, a new file called "pdftohtml" (no extension) will be created in the directory where your source is.

Now you need to replace the original "pdftohtml" with the newly-compiled one. Go to /usr/bin and make a backup of the "pdftohtml" there (copy paste somewhere else), just in case. Next replace the file in terminal:

sudo cp LOCATIONOFNEWFILE LOCATIONOFOLDFILE

All done! I had best success with the -noframes and -reflow paramaters, but play around with it and hopefully it'll work

Thanks a lot Partyboi for trying to help me <3