[SOLVED] Installing Tilda

**lorjack** · 07-16-2009, 05:40 PM

So I'm trying to install Tilda on Ubuntu, which isn't going so well. I was following this guide http://phorolinux.com/how-to-install...sy-gibbon.html
The problem seems to be something with Flex. I can't get it to install correctly. I tried it from the synaptic package manager but it can't find crap so that is out of the question.

I've installed this on Arch Linux before but i used pacman and it went very smoothly. If i could do that with Ubuntu that would be nice but of course i can't find pacman either.

Here is the results of what i have done, perhaps I'm just doing something wrong, but i don't know what it is and i need help on this one.

@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep tilda
[sudo] password for:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory)
@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install flex libglade2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package flex is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package flex has no installation candidate
@Ubuntu:~$ tar zxvf tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz
tar: tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
@Ubuntu:~$ ls
Desktop examples.desktop Pictures Templates
Documents Music Public Videos
@Ubuntu:~$ tar zxvf tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz
tilda-0.9.5/
tilda-0.9.5/README
tilda-0.9.5/tilda.png
tilda-0.9.5/tilda.desktop.in
tilda-0.9.5/m4/
tilda-0.9.5/m4/inttypes-pri.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/printf-posix.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/uintmax_t.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/glibc21.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/progtest.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/ulonglong.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/longlong.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/intl.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/lcmessage.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-ld.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-prefix.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/visibility.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/glibc2.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/stdint_h.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/Makefile.am
tilda-0.9.5/m4/gettext.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/size_max.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/po.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/intldir.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/Makefile.in
tilda-0.9.5/m4/intmax.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-link.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/wint_t.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/longdouble.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/inttypes_h.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/wchar_t.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/lock.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/xsize.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/iconv.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/nls.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/codeset.m4
tilda-0.9.5/m4/intdiv0.m4
tilda-0.9.5/tilda.glade
tilda-0.9.5/autogen.sh
tilda-0.9.5/missing
tilda-0.9.5/aclocal.m4
tilda-0.9.5/configure.ac
tilda-0.9.5/configure
tilda-0.9.5/INSTALL
tilda-0.9.5/ylwrap
tilda-0.9.5/COPYING
tilda-0.9.5/compile
tilda-0.9.5/ChangeLog
tilda-0.9.5/Makefile.am
tilda-0.9.5/TODO
tilda-0.9.5/tilda-config.h.in
tilda-0.9.5/src/
tilda-0.9.5/src/gettext.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/debug.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/callback_func.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/eggaccelerators.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_window.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/eggaccelerators.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/xerror.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/translation.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/key_converter.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/Makefile.am
tilda-0.9.5/src/callback_func.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_terminal.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/tomboykeybinder.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/Makefile.in
tilda-0.9.5/src/xerror.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/wizard.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/wizard.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_terminal.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/tomboykeybinder.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/key_converter.l
tilda-0.9.5/src/key_grabber.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/configsys.c
tilda-0.9.5/src/key_grabber.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_window.h
tilda-0.9.5/src/configsys.h
tilda-0.9.5/config.guess
tilda-0.9.5/Makefile.in
tilda-0.9.5/config.sub
tilda-0.9.5/NEWS
tilda-0.9.5/install-sh
tilda-0.9.5/depcomp
tilda-0.9.5/config.rpath
tilda-0.9.5/ABOUT-NLS
tilda-0.9.5/AUTHORS
tilda-0.9.5/po/
tilda-0.9.5/po/zh_CN.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/README
tilda-0.9.5/po/cs.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/POTFILES.in
tilda-0.9.5/po/quot.sed
tilda-0.9.5/po/boldquot.sed
tilda-0.9.5/po/fr.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/POTFILES
tilda-0.9.5/po/LINGUAS
tilda-0.9.5/po/pl.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/insert-header.sin
tilda-0.9.5/po/remove-potcdate.sin
tilda-0.9.5/po/es.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/en@quot.header
tilda-0.9.5/po/el.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/Makevars
tilda-0.9.5/po/pt.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/it.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/ca.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/sk.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/remove-potcdate.sed
tilda-0.9.5/po/tilda.pot
tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile.in.in
tilda-0.9.5/po/Makevars.template
tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile.in
tilda-0.9.5/po/tr.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/ru.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/Rules-quot
tilda-0.9.5/po/sl.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile
tilda-0.9.5/po/en@boldquot.header
tilda-0.9.5/po/stamp-po
tilda-0.9.5/po/de.po
tilda-0.9.5/po/sv.po
@Ubuntu:~$ cd tilda-0.9.5/
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
configure: error: No lex program found
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get lex
E: Invalid operation lex
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get install lex
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package lex
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ clear

@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get install tilda
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package tilda
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ls
ABOUT-NLS config.guess COPYING Makefile.in tilda-config.h.in
aclocal.m4 config.log depcomp missing tilda.desktop.in
AUTHORS config.rpath INSTALL NEWS tilda.glade
autogen.sh config.sub install-sh po tilda.png
ChangeLog configure m4 README TODO
compile configure.ac Makefile.am src ylwrap
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ install
install: missing file operand
Try `install --help' for more information.
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
configure: error: No lex program found
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ clear

@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
configure: error: No lex program found
@Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$

**wmorri** · 07-16-2009, 05:51 PM

Hi,

I would start by finding the programs flex and lex, then see if you can role them into your system. You might need to role them yourself or just install them through synaptic.

Cheers!

**lorjack** · 07-16-2009, 07:01 PM

Well that is where the problem is. I can't use Synaptic because it can't find anything. And from what i have seen about Flex is that it is out of date and that it has been replaced. Unfortuanately, there is no mention of what replaced it.

All I'm finding is ways to install Flex that i have already tried and aren't working.

shuuhen · 07-16-2009, 09:00 PM

I don't see why flex would be out dated. What's in your /etc/sources.list file? What version of Ubuntu are you running?

You probably won't find pacman for an Ubuntu system as that is a separate package manager. Having multiple package managers sounds like it would cause many conflicts.

**lorjack** · 07-18-2009, 06:37 PM

It is the latest version of Ubuntu, v. 9.04 i believe. I'll have to look in that file to see what is there, currently running Win7 so i can't exactly do it now.

**lorjack** · 07-19-2009, 05:57 PM

OK, sorry it took a couple of days to check that file.

Unfortunately, I don't have that file at all. Doesn't exist. Which I take it isn't good. I've still not had any success finding/installing flex, is there some special command i need to run to get it using apt?

**lorjack** · 07-19-2009, 06:28 PM

Ok, I got Flex to install, I guess. Of course it needs like four other programs before it can be configured and then those programs need other programs. I am starting to get frustrated with this so I am quiting before I really mess something up. I don't want Tilda that bad to go through all of this crap.

**lorjack** · 07-19-2009, 07:50 PM

Well, I didn't follow my own advice and kept working at it. After who knows how many hours i've been trying to get this program to install I ended up giving up on it and installed Yakuake.

One command and it installed like I expected it to. Done in 2 minutes. And i actually like Yakuake better, because it actually works!

Thread solved.

07-16-2009, 05:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	[SOLVED] Installing Tilda So I'm trying to install Tilda on Ubuntu, which isn't going so well. I was following this guide http://phorolinux.com/how-to-install...sy-gibbon.html The problem seems to be something with Flex. I can't get it to install correctly. I tried it from the synaptic package manager but it can't find crap so that is out of the question. I've installed this on Arch Linux before but i used pacman and it went very smoothly. If i could do that with Ubuntu that would be nice but of course i can't find pacman either. Here is the results of what i have done, perhaps I'm just doing something wrong, but i don't know what it is and i need help on this one. @Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep tilda [sudo] password for: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory) @Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install flex libglade2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package flex is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package flex has no installation candidate @Ubuntu:~$ tar zxvf tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz tar: tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors @Ubuntu:~$ ls Desktop examples.desktop Pictures Templates Documents Music Public Videos @Ubuntu:~$ tar zxvf tilda-0.9.5.tar.gz tilda-0.9.5/ tilda-0.9.5/README tilda-0.9.5/tilda.png tilda-0.9.5/tilda.desktop.in tilda-0.9.5/m4/ tilda-0.9.5/m4/inttypes-pri.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/printf-posix.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/uintmax_t.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/glibc21.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/progtest.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/ulonglong.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/longlong.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/intl.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/lcmessage.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-ld.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-prefix.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/visibility.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/glibc2.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/stdint_h.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/Makefile.am tilda-0.9.5/m4/gettext.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/size_max.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/po.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/intldir.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/Makefile.in tilda-0.9.5/m4/intmax.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/lib-link.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/wint_t.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/longdouble.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/inttypes_h.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/wchar_t.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/lock.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/xsize.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/iconv.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/nls.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/codeset.m4 tilda-0.9.5/m4/intdiv0.m4 tilda-0.9.5/tilda.glade tilda-0.9.5/autogen.sh tilda-0.9.5/missing tilda-0.9.5/aclocal.m4 tilda-0.9.5/configure.ac tilda-0.9.5/configure tilda-0.9.5/INSTALL tilda-0.9.5/ylwrap tilda-0.9.5/COPYING tilda-0.9.5/compile tilda-0.9.5/ChangeLog tilda-0.9.5/Makefile.am tilda-0.9.5/TODO tilda-0.9.5/tilda-config.h.in tilda-0.9.5/src/ tilda-0.9.5/src/gettext.h tilda-0.9.5/src/debug.h tilda-0.9.5/src/callback_func.c tilda-0.9.5/src/eggaccelerators.c tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_window.c tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda.c tilda-0.9.5/src/eggaccelerators.h tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda.h tilda-0.9.5/src/xerror.h tilda-0.9.5/src/translation.h tilda-0.9.5/src/key_converter.h tilda-0.9.5/src/Makefile.am tilda-0.9.5/src/callback_func.h tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_terminal.h tilda-0.9.5/src/tomboykeybinder.h tilda-0.9.5/src/Makefile.in tilda-0.9.5/src/xerror.c tilda-0.9.5/src/wizard.h tilda-0.9.5/src/wizard.c tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_terminal.c tilda-0.9.5/src/tomboykeybinder.c tilda-0.9.5/src/key_converter.l tilda-0.9.5/src/key_grabber.c tilda-0.9.5/src/configsys.c tilda-0.9.5/src/key_grabber.h tilda-0.9.5/src/tilda_window.h tilda-0.9.5/src/configsys.h tilda-0.9.5/config.guess tilda-0.9.5/Makefile.in tilda-0.9.5/config.sub tilda-0.9.5/NEWS tilda-0.9.5/install-sh tilda-0.9.5/depcomp tilda-0.9.5/config.rpath tilda-0.9.5/ABOUT-NLS tilda-0.9.5/AUTHORS tilda-0.9.5/po/ tilda-0.9.5/po/zh_CN.po tilda-0.9.5/po/README tilda-0.9.5/po/cs.po tilda-0.9.5/po/POTFILES.in tilda-0.9.5/po/quot.sed tilda-0.9.5/po/boldquot.sed tilda-0.9.5/po/fr.po tilda-0.9.5/po/POTFILES tilda-0.9.5/po/LINGUAS tilda-0.9.5/po/pl.po tilda-0.9.5/po/insert-header.sin tilda-0.9.5/po/remove-potcdate.sin tilda-0.9.5/po/es.po tilda-0.9.5/po/en@quot.header tilda-0.9.5/po/el.po tilda-0.9.5/po/Makevars tilda-0.9.5/po/pt.po tilda-0.9.5/po/it.po tilda-0.9.5/po/ca.po tilda-0.9.5/po/sk.po tilda-0.9.5/po/remove-potcdate.sed tilda-0.9.5/po/tilda.pot tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile.in.in tilda-0.9.5/po/Makevars.template tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile.in tilda-0.9.5/po/tr.po tilda-0.9.5/po/ru.po tilda-0.9.5/po/Rules-quot tilda-0.9.5/po/sl.po tilda-0.9.5/po/Makefile tilda-0.9.5/po/en@boldquot.header tilda-0.9.5/po/stamp-po tilda-0.9.5/po/de.po tilda-0.9.5/po/sv.po @Ubuntu:~$ cd tilda-0.9.5/ @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... : checking for xgettext... no checking for msgmerge... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes checking whether to use NLS... yes checking where the gettext function comes from... libc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for flex... no checking for lex... no configure: error: No lex program found @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ make make: * No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo make install make: * No rule to make target `install'. Stop. @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get lex E: Invalid operation lex @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get install lex Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package lex @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ clear @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ sudo apt-get install tilda Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package tilda @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ls ABOUT-NLS config.guess COPYING Makefile.in tilda-config.h.in aclocal.m4 config.log depcomp missing tilda.desktop.in AUTHORS config.rpath INSTALL NEWS tilda.glade autogen.sh config.sub install-sh po tilda.png ChangeLog configure m4 README TODO compile configure.ac Makefile.am src ylwrap @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ install install: missing file operand Try `install --help' for more information. @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... : checking for xgettext... no checking for msgmerge... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes checking whether to use NLS... yes checking where the gettext function comes from... libc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for flex... no checking for lex... no configure: error: No lex program found @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ clear @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... : checking for xgettext... no checking for msgmerge... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes checking whether to use NLS... yes checking where the gettext function comes from... libc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for flex... no checking for lex... no configure: error: No lex program found @Ubuntu:~/tilda-0.9.5$ __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you... Last edited by lorjack; 07-16-2009 at 05:45 PM.

07-16-2009, 05:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,840 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: Installing Tilda Hi, I would start by finding the programs flex and lex, then see if you can role them into your system. You might need to role them yourself or just install them through synaptic. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!

07-16-2009, 07:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Installing Tilda Well that is where the problem is. I can't use Synaptic because it can't find anything. And from what i have seen about Flex is that it is out of date and that it has been replaced. Unfortuanately, there is no mention of what replaced it. All I'm finding is ways to install Flex that i have already tried and aren't working. __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you...

07-16-2009, 09:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
shuuhen Manager Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 988 OS: Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X 10.5.8, WinXP Pro, FreeBSD 6.0, Gentoo Linux My System	Re: Installing Tilda I don't see why flex would be out dated. What's in your /etc/sources.list file? What version of Ubuntu are you running? You probably won't find pacman for an Ubuntu system as that is a separate package manager. Having multiple package managers sounds like it would cause many conflicts. __________________ Has it been a few days since I replied to your thread? Don't panic! I'm a busy college student and may forget a post if I'm extra busy (or it might just take me a while to be able to do a decent reply). If you still need help and are awaiting my reply after a few days, PM me about it. When posting what errors you get, please give the full message. It makes helping you much easier.

07-18-2009, 06:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Installing Tilda It is the latest version of Ubuntu, v. 9.04 i believe. I'll have to look in that file to see what is there, currently running Win7 so i can't exactly do it now. __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you...

07-19-2009, 05:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Installing Tilda OK, sorry it took a couple of days to check that file. Unfortunately, I don't have that file at all. Doesn't exist. Which I take it isn't good. I've still not had any success finding/installing flex, is there some special command i need to run to get it using apt? __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you...

07-19-2009, 06:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Installing Tilda Ok, I got Flex to install, I guess. Of course it needs like four other programs before it can be configured and then those programs need other programs. I am starting to get frustrated with this so I am quiting before I really mess something up. I don't want Tilda that bad to go through all of this crap. __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you...

07-19-2009, 07:50 PM	#8 (permalink)
lorjack TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 2,209 OS: Windows 2K, XP Pro sp3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu	Re: Installing Tilda Well, I didn't follow my own advice and kept working at it. After who knows how many hours i've been trying to get this program to install I ended up giving up on it and installed Yakuake. One command and it installed like I expected it to. Done in 2 minutes. And i actually like Yakuake better, because it actually works! Thread solved. __________________ Those who can't write, write manuals. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you...