Zlib error and configure commands???

[PayPaul]

$ dpkg -L quat

Note, capital L!
You may need to use the full path, should be listed by the above command, something like

 $ /usr/local/bin/quat

You're very helpful and yet this doesn't make sense to me....yet..

This is what I got when I amended that command to use the "L" in caps. At least I got something. Now what I can do with it is another matter.

paulw@ubuntu:~/quat-1.20$ dpkg -L quat
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/quat
/usr/share/doc/quat/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/quat/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ex_3.jpg
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us-5.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us-4.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de-3.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us-3.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ex_2.jpg
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/chart_us.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ex_1.jpg
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/Dendr_st.jpg
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/chart_de.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ie.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de-4.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de-1.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/oe.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ote.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/Makefile.am
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de-5.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/gpl.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ce.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de-2.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us-1.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-de.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/Makefile.in
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/ve.png
/usr/share/doc/quat/doc/quat-us-2.html
/usr/share/doc/quat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/quat/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/quat/README
/usr/share/doc/quat/ChangeLog
/usr/local
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/quat.iss
/usr/local/share/quat
/usr/local/share/quat/ex_3.jpg
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us-5.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us-4.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de-3.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us-3.html
/usr/local/share/quat/ex_2.jpg
/usr/local/share/quat/chart_us.png
/usr/local/share/quat/ex_1.jpg
/usr/local/share/quat/Dendr_st.jpg
/usr/local/share/quat/chart_de.png
/usr/local/share/quat/ie.png
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de-4.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de-1.html
/usr/local/share/quat/oe.png
/usr/local/share/quat/ote.png
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de-5.html
/usr/local/share/quat/gpl.html
/usr/local/share/quat/ce.png
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de-2.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us-1.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-de.html
/usr/local/share/quat/quat.png
/usr/local/share/quat/ve.png
/usr/local/share/quat/quat-us-2.html
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/quat-txt
paulw@ubuntu:~/quat-1.20$

It seems like a list of all the files that are in the directory containing the source files for this program. Hmmm.. ?

[SevenMachines]

No, that looks fine. quat-text is the text version, doesnt look like the gui version has been built and installed though
Running

 $ /usr/local/bin/quat-txt

should work though

[PayPaul]

No, that looks fine. quat-text is the text version, doesnt look like the gui version has been built and installed though
Running

 $ /usr/local/bin/quat-txt

should work though

Hmmm. This is what I get when I run that code in terminal

paulw@ubuntu:~/quat-1.20$ /usr/local/bin/quat-txt
Didn't understand the given parameters. For help use -h
paulw@ubuntu:~/quat-1.20$ quat-txt
Didn't understand the given parameters. For help use -h
paulw@ubuntu:~/quat-1.20$

thank you for your patience with a noob. I tried a similar program called Fract-o-rama from source and that experience wasn't much better. It came as a deb file but there was an error regarding python and dependency, whatever that means.

[SevenMachines]

The gui for quat *does* build on natty, but it takes an amount of hacking. The best thing to do would be to either ask around and see if...

* any of the main repository fractal programs you might of missed will do what you want
* Or if theres a 3rd part repository that provides something you could use
* Or theres a more up-to-date fractal program that will build without substantial hacking

[MG&TL]

/usr/local/bin/quat-txt -h

Should tell you how to do it.