Sources
The safest way to install QTopo on Linux is to compile it from the sources. Download and untar the source tgz:
mkdir TopoLinux cd TopoLInux tar -xzf topolinux-XXX.tgzNOtice that you need to create a directory and untar the file there, because the archive does not contain it. The following subdirectories structure should appear:
bin .......... executable files basic ........ TopoLinux utilities calib ........ TopoLinux calibration utilities distox ....... DistoX connection and communication docs ......... documentation help ......... help pages i18n ......... internationalization data files icons ........ run-time icons pixmaps ...... compile-time pixmaps QTcalib ...... QTopoCalib classes QTshot ....... QTopoShot classes utils ........ utility classes tmp .......... dataThe source files are in distox, utils, basic, calib, QTshot and QTcalib. Unless you must work without a window environment, it is not necessary to compile the programs in basic and calib. There are also a few files, the most important of which is the run-time configuration file qtopo.rc.
There is no "configure" and you must compile everything by hand. You need the C++ and Qt development environment (g++, etc., and Qt), and you must compile the sources in four directories:
At this point you have two executables bin/qtshot and bin/qtcalib. Run them from the TopoLinux root directory, as they look for the run-time resources from there, in particular there is the configuraion file qtopo.rc.
Precompiled
The precompiled download archive qtopo-XXX.tgz contains the subdirectories
bin ......... executables docs ........ documentation i18n ........ internationalization data icons ....... run-time icons help ........ help pages tmp ......... data
Furthermore, there is the run-time configuration file qtopo.rc.
You need to have the Qt-4 run-time (libraries) installed. To execute a program, invoke it from the TopoLinux root directory. For example
./bin/qtshot