Hello

I am on Mandriva 2009 and i'm beginner, I don't know how to install knewz

Can you help me please

Thanks

Hi, I'd be very interested in giving knewz a spin, unfortunatly though upon configuring with cmake it fails with the following error:

CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
UUDEVIEW_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory /home/nathan/Downloads/knewz-0.1_beta4/src

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 Beta

Here's gentoo ebuild that I made for my own use:

Quote:
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI="1"
NEED_KDE="4.0.0"

inherit kde4-base versionator

DESCRIPTION="KDE news reader that supports .nzb files"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KNewz?content=58797"
SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/knewz/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"


KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"

SLOT="kde-4"
LICENSE="GPL-2"

RDEPEND="dev-libs/uulib"

src_unpack() {
kde4-base_src_unpack
sed -i -e 's~/usr/lib/uudeview/libuu.a~/usr/lib/libuu.a~g' ${S}/src/CMakeLists.txt || die "Sed failed"
sed -i -e 's~uudeview/uudeview.h~uudeview.h~g' ${S}/src/decoderthread.cc || die "Sed failed"
sed -i -e 's~uudeview/uudeview.h~uudeview.h~g' ${S}/src/decoder.h || die "Sed failed"

}

src_compile() {
kde4-base_src_compile
}



src_install() {
kde4-base_src_install
}

Hopefully the build won't fail anymore due to uudeview not being found. It is an interim fix, since by the 1.0 release it won't be needed anymore as I am writing my own decoder now. But in the meantime it should obviate the need to edit the CMakeLists.txt file.

Hey, I was wondering if you could post some links to your favourite places to get NZB files. I've looked around but haven't found anything particularly great.

Thanks

tka

There are free sites out there, but I have a subscription on www.newzbin.com. Really nice site that offers SSL connections as well. It only costs about $1 a week, so if you have a credit card it's perfect.
There are some good free sites out there I know, one is http://alt.binaries.nl/

Two more :

http://www.newzleech.com/

http://www.binsearch.info/

am I missing something? I can't find a way to subscribe to groups or filter.

there's a tray icon but it's not visible

I am busy writing a custom yenc decoder, so the dependency on uudeview will be gone by the 1.0 release.

As for group subscription, if you want that I would suggest klibido. As stated in the description of KNewz, this program is only meant for downloading from nzb files, and will never support browsing newsgroups. Browsing groups like alt.binaries.boneless is impractical - it contains more than one million posts! And since this program is meant to download binaries from newsgroups, I feel that support for browsing binary newsgroups would be impractical as well.

this is still a problem

suse uses:
/usr/include/uudeview.h not /usr/include/uudeview/uudeview.h
/usr/lib64/libuu.a not /usr/lib/uudeview/libuu.a

That happens on Ubuntu Feisty as well. There are no uudeview directories, the files just sit in /usr/include and /usr/lib.

I fixed it by making a couple of uudeview directories and symlinking the header an library files into them as appropriate.

Dead simple fix, of course. Probably not something the ordinary user should have to do, though.

tka

GCC 4 should work fine, it's what I'm using as well.

The QT error cmake is throwing is because it's not finding your cmake install. How are you running cmake? You should be issuing the command : cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde4 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG
This is assuming you have kde4 installed in /opt/kde4 of course.

If you run that in the project directory it should build a valid Makefile. If it isn't finding Qt after you running that, then there is something wrong with your install of qt-copy. It's probably not being found in your path, which normally means that Qt3 is being found instead of Qt4. What distribution are you running?

Cmake is the future, I'm convinced of it =) From a developers POV it's heaven compared to autohell. And the end user won't notice much difference except a prettier output in the terminal :D

I just get an endless string of errors when it gets to uulib, I downloaded uudeview and compiled it and it built fine on its own. the cmake options and help are horid ! run .configure --help you get usefull info :)
do cmake help you get vauge general info thats not very usefull. :(

/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h: In member function 'void Decoder::decode(const QStringList&, QStandardItem*, const QString&)':
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:197: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetBusyCallback()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:160: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:193: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetMsgCallback()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:161: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:191: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:162: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:191: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:163: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:208: error: too many arguments to function 'int UULoadFile()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:169: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:172: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:172: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:176: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:177: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:183: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:184: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:185: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:210: error: too many arguments to function 'uulist* UUGetFileListItem()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:189: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:214: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUDecodeFile()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:193: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:196: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:196: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:199: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:199: error: at this point in file
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/../knewz.dir/decoder.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/../knewz.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


the build goes fine until it hits uulib..

no distro, btw

I just get an endless string of errors when it gets to uulib, I downloaded uudeview and compiled it and it built fine on its own. the cmake options and help are horid ! run .configure --help you get usefull info :)
do cmake help you get vauge general info thats not very usefull. :(

/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h: In member function 'void Decoder::decode(const QStringList&, QStandardItem*, const QString&)':
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:197: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetBusyCallback()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:160: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:193: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetMsgCallback()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:161: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:191: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:162: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:191: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:163: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:208: error: too many arguments to function 'int UULoadFile()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:169: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:172: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:172: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:176: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:177: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:183: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:184: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:218: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUSmerge()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:185: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:210: error: too many arguments to function 'uulist* UUGetFileListItem()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:189: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:214: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUDecodeFile()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:193: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:196: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:196: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:190: error: too many arguments to function 'int UUGetOption()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:199: error: at this point in file
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/../uulib/uudeview.h:192: error: too many arguments to function 'char* UUstrerror()'
/home/bmfan/Desktop/knewz/src/decoder.cc:199: error: at this point in file
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/../knewz.dir/decoder.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/../knewz.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


the build goes fine until it hits uulib..

no distro, btw

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, school has been hectic :)

Vista just wiped my drive, and now upon a reinstall I am running into the same errors you are. I didn't have them before. I'm busy fixing them, but it requires writing some cmake specific code so it's taking me a while since I have exams this week. After that though, I have summer holidays and I think I shall be able to iron out the last bugs that are keeping KNewz from a 0.1 release. KDE4 has become relatively stable - or at least the GUI bugs are ironed out. There are still a few of my own coding bugs that I have to sort out, but I use it every day already and I must say, apart from a few hard to find (and therefor infrequently occuring) bugs it is performing really well. Better than I had expected :p

yeah kde4 is coming along nicely, ive got it installed over in /opt. I haven't installed anything but kdebase though. so not sure how the apps are coming along.

OK, well, the quick fix (well the program compiles and starts not tested it yet) for this problem seems to be that your version of the uudeview.h is not in /usr/include/uudeview/uudeview.h but just straight in usr include. Grep through the source for uudeview/uudeview.h and replace with uudeview.h.
After this I had a problem with cmake linking luu.a. Similar problem just edit src/CMakeList.txt to reflect how your system is layed out.

bomarrow1,

I'm missing the last crucial piece of info, ie how did you edit CMakeLists.txt to reflect....

Make is failing with No rule to make target /usr/lib/uudeview/libuu.a

but on my system libuu.a is under /usr/lib

So apparently I need to add the proper "add lib" command to CMakeLists.txt

Can you tell me what the command is and it's propoer usage like...(incorrect example follows)....

ADD_LIBRARY_PATH(/usr/lib) as an example.....what exactly did you do/should I do?

I simply looked through src/CMakeList.txt. Searched for the library then changed the line to the correct path and ran make again.

thanks. my bad, was looking at the wrong file. It builds ok now.

Thats exactly what I found to be lacking in klibido, Can't wait to start using it :)
Im afraid to switch to KDE 4 right now though, I have a feeling alot of my apps would not work

Well, all you really need is kdelibs from KDE4. You can install that alongside KDE, and all you have to do when compiling KNewz is pass the location of KDE4 with the cmake option -DCMAKE_INSTALLPREFIX=/path/to/kde4
CMake will generate an executable and a shell script that tells the executable where the KDE4 libraries are. This lets you run it in a KDE3 environment. I already download all my Usenet binaries with KNewz. Nothing like frustration over lack of features to motivate writing code :p
If your distro doesn't provide the KDE4 library (you often need to add a custom, non-official repository manually) then you can find detailed instructions on the kde site as to how to install kde4libs from source : get the tarballs here http://www.kde.org/info/3.90.1.php and find the instructions here : http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4_Alpha_1

I followed the instructions there, they simply would not work for me. no matter what i did it insisted on installing in /usr/local

. but i went ahead and installed qt, kdelibs kdepimlibs and kde base just to try it all out. menus froze on the screen. windows stuck open etc... got a ways to go it looks like.

and wouldnt i need qt and kdelibs, not just kde libs

You need qt-copy and kdelibs. You don't NEED kdepimlibs or kdebase to run this program, they are needed to get a "functioning" kde4 desktop. It's possible, and probably preferably right now given the state of kde4, to run this program in a kde3 environment.

If the install goes awry, you could always just build the executable and then manually copy it over to your /path/to/kde4/bin directory. I had removed the install command from the CMakeLists.txt file for this release as I was just running it from the directory I built it in, and figured that no-one would be installing it yet as KDE4 is not usable. As such, installing it would put it in the bin directory of kde4, which wouldn't be in your $PATH so the executable wouldn't be found.

I shall add the install command back in for the next release, and add a .desktop file so that you can at least run the app by using a desktop icon.

The sticky/dissapearing menu's are due to bugs in KDE4, there's not much I can do about that I'm afraid.

You need qt-copy and kdelibs. You don't NEED kdepimlibs or kdebase to run this program, they are needed to get a "functioning" kde4 desktop. It's possible, and probably preferably right now given the state of kde4, to run this program in a kde3 environment.

If the install goes awry, you could always just build the executable and then manually copy it over to your /path/to/kde4/bin directory. I had removed the install command from the CMakeLists.txt file for this release as I was just running it from the directory I built it in, and figured that no-one would be installing it yet as KDE4 is not usable. As such, installing it would put it in the bin directory of kde4, which wouldn't be in your $PATH so the executable wouldn't be found.

I shall add the install command back in for the next release, and add a .desktop file so that you can at least run the app by using a desktop icon.

The sticky/dissapearing menu's are due to bugs in KDE4, there's not much I can do about that I'm afraid.