[SOLVED]Compiling f4l

[Rebecca_D]

I am using PCLOS KDE and I am interested in installing F4l v0.21 - Flash for Linux (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23696), a development environment for Macromedia Flash. The files currently have to be downloaded and compiled. There is a very helpful video on YouTube about downloading and installation.

[tut] How to install Flash4Linux (flash authoring tool) on another distro-based distributions

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In the video and using a terminal the first commands needed are:

sudo apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install cvs
sudo apt-get install g++

Then proceeding to download files:

cvs -z9 -d:server:anonymous@f4l.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/f4l co f4l-0,2

After this there are changes that have to be made in two files before issuing the make command.

I have tried to do this logged in as root and the first problem I encountered was bash: sudo: command not found.

Doing a little Googling I used su. I managed to install cvs without any probems, but qt3-dev-tools and g++ returned similar results to,

apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package qt-dev-tools

As far as the download command is concerned it returned cvs [checkout aborted] the :server: access method is not supported by this port of CVS.

I am new to Linux and especially use of the terminal so I am somewhat in the dark. It may be that f4l is not supported by PCLOS. Any suggestions welcomed.

[menotu]

Unsure if this is relevant but it seems the last update to the kde.org site was in  Jun 2006

[Rebecca_D]

Well that may explain a lot!!

[muungwana]

It also depends on qt3.

Anything depending on qt3 is,by definition,abandonware.

If this project is still maintained,look for the version that depends on qt4

[Neal ManBear]

PCLinuxOS uses su plus root password, not sudo.