The new 'SMILE' SLIDESHOW. An install process that worked for me on 8.04.1
(Translated from a French UBUNTU Forum) ... WAS EASY FOR ME, A NEWBIE.
SMILE 0.6.x INSTALL ON HARDY 8.04.1 - worked as of 8/9/08 (Used 0.6.4. Should work on later versions.)
Install the dependencies (libogg-dev,livorbis-dev,libmad0-dev and others in line below, if not present) using Synaptic or use the following in Terminal. Synaptic worked well for me for validating what is there and downloading--if you are not familiar with Terminal:
sudo apt-get install libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libmad0-dev build-essential fakeroot checkinstall mplayer mencoder imagemagick
Uninstall existing SOX using Synaptic, if installed (you can check,as always, using Synaptic), or use this command at the terminal:
sudo apt-get remove - purge sox
Download latest version of SOX in its compressed form, then UNPACK the download in a folder you create, like “sox-14.0.1”... SOX compressed file may be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/downl...irror=internap
Go to the location where you unpacked all the SOX files,for example:
cd /home/g/sox-14.0.1
(NOTE: As I have learned and I am sure you all know, a"xxx.tar.gz" folder in Ubuntu/Linux is the same as a "xxx.zip" in Windows. A ZIP folder. My approach to unzip any "xxx.tar.gz" is to simply double-click on the "xxx.tar.gz" in question, which allows you to see its contents, then to drag the folder in it to my "/home" directory.)
Compile SOX in /usr with this command...SMILE expects to see it in /usr and that's where this code puts it—execute one command at a time:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
INSTALL needed libraries for qt4 noted below: In Hardy, FIRST go to System, Administration, Software Sources, Updates, and select Hardy-Backports to allow loading of some of these items. I then used Synaptic to install and it worked well. (There are 3 libs, as you'll note, and they load others automatically.)
sudo apt-get install libqt4-opengl-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-webkit
NOTE: Per French site, if the 3 previous packages are not enough, install the packages in qt4-designer; should install dependencies missing. The above Synaptic action worked fine for me, with no issues, so I had no need to do this.
INSTALLING SMILE - located at http://smile.tuxfamily.org/ I selected 0.6.4 for American Friends. NOW 0.6.6.
[FYI: "DOWNLOAD" in French is "Téléchargement" If you wish,read the 'Smile' site in English by using Google-Translate.]
Unzip the file from the site into the directory/folder where you want to put it, for example “smile”.
Go to the directory where you just decompressed it; example:
cd /home/g/smile
Compile SMILE with qt4 using these two commands:
/usr/bin/qmake-qt4 smile.pro
make
LAUNCH SMILE:
At Terminal Command line, type path to executible, like /home/g/smile/smile OR Create a "Launcher" to this/your location. The Icon is located at /smile/Interface/Theme/smile.png
Note: 2 cookies are created in your home directory:. Smile.cnf is a configuration file and. Logsmile.txt which is the log file useful to trace bugs
Warning:
in cases of resettlement or installation of a new version you must delete the file. smile.cnf using: rm ~/.smile.cnf
Be Advised: Apparently, project files are not transportable between versions.
good luck...
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