QuiteInsane
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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain QuiteInsane

QuiteInsane can be downloaded from SourceForge. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quiteinsane for further information.

2.2 Requirements

In order to build QuiteInsane, the following tools and libraries are required:

Qt version 2.2.x; QuiteInsane needs Qt2.2.0 or higher. It definitely won't compile with Qt1.4x. It can also be compiled with Qt3.x. Furthermore, it's possible to link with the KDE libraries, either version 2 or 3. If you want to use the JPEG format, Qt has to be configured/compiled with the option "-system-jpeg". You can get the latest version of Qt via ftp download from ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/

Of course, the SANE package must be installed on your system. Versions 1.0.3. and 1.0.4. should work; previous version are untested. For information on how to obtain the SANE package, please visit http://www.mostang.com/sane

If you want to use the TIFF image format, libtiff has to be installed.

If you are interested in OCR (Optical Character Recognition), gocr has to be installed on your system. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/jocr for more information about gocr. (No, there's no typo in the link; it's really jocr :). You don't need gocr just to compile QuiteInsane; it's also possible to install gocr afterwards, without the need to recompile QuiteInsane.

2.3 Compilation and installation

Please note:
It's recommended, that you deinstall older versions, before you install a new one. To deinstall QuiteInsane, change to the source directory of the old version and type (as root):

make uninstall

This should remove all installed files.

In order to compile and install QuiteInsane on your system, do the following (as a "normal" user, not as root):

Change to the directory where you've put the tarball. Execute the following commands:

Change the directory:

Please replace xxx with the real version information, e.g quiteinsane-0.1-prealpha-1.tar.gz.

Make sure, that QTDIR points to the correct Qt version. Many distributions ship with two Qt versions, like Qt1.4x and Qt2.2.x. If QTDIR points to Qt1.4x, configure will break with an error message. You can set QTDIR with the following commands:

You have to replace "YourPath" with the real path and "qt-2.2.x" with the real Qt version, of course.

Configure QuiteInsane:

This may take a while.

Compile and install QuiteInsane:

(and as root)

Since Quiteinsane uses autoconf you shouldn't have trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the author at crapsite@gmx.net


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