[Kwintv] Can't get any plugins to show up.

[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

On Monday 14 October 2002 14:14, Michael Kedl wrote:
> Strange that I didn't have to update anything and you did.
> Since we both installed RH8.  But I have compiled some other things and
> maybe some of my downloads for them updated my system.
>
> I did not compile with --prefix=/opt, that seems to be what it defaulted
> to.  I'm not really sure where kde is installed as a base /usr maybe?
>
> v4l seems to be working fine with several other programs.
>
> I assume in the qtvision -> settings -> Configure qtvision -> plugins
> section there are video/mixer/channel format/other plugins.  My complete
> section is empty, which leads me to believe a path of something is wrong.
> Maybe that --prefix above.  What did you use when you compiled?  my /opt
> dir was empty until I compiled this program.

You need to use --prefix=/usr with Redhat else your plugins will not be found. 
The other option is to specify KDEDIRS to list the also the alternate prefix 
too. (like KDEDIRS=/usr:/opt/kd3 - tough I'm not sure, if it should be /opt 
or /opt/kde3 or some subdir - search for a more detailed explanation of 
KDEDIRS).

Note: installing programs with 'make install' to /usr (and not /usr/local or 
/opt) is not a good practice. Only rpms should install directly to /usr.
But of course you can install to /usr, just later you may have problems when 
using rpm for upgrading...

> Thanks for the suggestions!
> Mike
>
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:01:17 -0700, John Campbell <jdc.rpv@cox.net> wrote :
> > On 14 Oct 2002 00:46:28 -0000, you wrote:
> > >I know this must be lame, but I grabbed the latest version from CVS,
> > >compiled and installed it, but I don't see any plugins (and hence no
> > >devices/sources).
> > >
> > >Redhat 8.0, laptop with tuner and video in.
> > >xawtv seems to work ok....
> > >
> > >It installed into /opt, and I see the plugins /opt/kde3/lib/kde3.
> > >I have copied them around the system but can't find the "magic spot" or
> > >config file to tweak.
> >
> > Do you have v4l working?  Without v4l, nothing else shows up in
> > qtvision.  Xawtv will work but not qtvision.
> >
> > You did run "./configure --prefix=/opt" before compiling?
> >
> > I also installed Redhat 8.0...I ended up having to update autoconf
> > before qtvision would compile correctly.  I also had to edit a couple
> > of files because the detection for auto-m4 still thinks I've got
> > version 2.53 of auto-m4 instead of 2.54 and there are differences.
> > Once I got it to detect correctly things compiled.
> >
> > But as you actually got it to compile you obviously don't have that
> > problem.
> >
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