Hi, I'm creating a small bash script. I would like to make this script portable to any Linux system without having to install any additional packages to make it work.
The problem is that this script uses the wmctrl tool, which isn't present on many distributions, so the question is:
I can arrange the distribution of a version of wmctrl which can be run on any distribution without having to install anything. Create a version of wmctrl that has no external dependencies.
it's possible? and if so, how? Can anyone help me?
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I am new in Linux and don't know much about it's installation manner. It's interesting for me to know where does it install the pockesphinx program?
where is continuous.cfile?
How Linux can find and execute this command: pocketsphinx_continuous -inmic yes ?
Where stuff is installed depends on how it was installed. Usually: If you were using your package manager, refer to your distrobutions documentation. If you extracted a tarball or installed using a script from a projects website, refer to their documentation.
If you are able to invoke the program from your terminal from everywhere, it will probably reside somewhere on your $PATH. You can show which directories are included in your path by issuing cat $PATH in your terminal of choice.
Also, the locate command is useful if you need to locate a file on your disk. I.e. locate pocketsphinx would give you all files that has the pocketsphinx string in its name, and its location. If you just installed the program, you might need to run a sudo updatedb to rebuild the index.
I'll love something like Microsoft Visual Studio's line-by-line debugging in bash, with current variables values and so.
Is there any tool or way to do it? set -x and set -v are nice but not perfect.
See bashdb.
If it's installed on your system, see man bashdb.
If it's not installed, see http://bashdb.sourceforge.net
Yes. Use "bashdb" from http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/
Latest version at time of writing
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/bashdb/4.2-0.8/
If you are on a Mac (like I was) then you might need to install the GNU version of Bash.
I did that using "MacPorts"
http://www.macports.org/
Once you have MacPorts...
port install bash
Then follow the instructions to
./configure (in bashdb unpacked directory)
make
sudo make install
Then add the folder where bashdb can be found in your PATH
I'll love something like Microsoft Visual Studio's line-by-line debugging in bash, with current variables values and so.
Is there any tool or way to do it? set -x and set -v are nice but not perfect.
See bashdb.
If it's installed on your system, see man bashdb.
If it's not installed, see http://bashdb.sourceforge.net
Yes. Use "bashdb" from http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/
Latest version at time of writing
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdb/files/bashdb/4.2-0.8/
If you are on a Mac (like I was) then you might need to install the GNU version of Bash.
I did that using "MacPorts"
http://www.macports.org/
Once you have MacPorts...
port install bash
Then follow the instructions to
./configure (in bashdb unpacked directory)
make
sudo make install
Then add the folder where bashdb can be found in your PATH
As part of a long, sordid story whose end goal is simply to get GMP installed for use with code::blocks in Windows, I am trying to configure gmp. I do this with the following command:
./configure --prefix=${gmp_install}
Everything starts out well enough. After a few minutes and a bit of progress, everything grinds to a halt and I get this message:
configure: error: No usable M4 in $PATH or /usr5bin
I don't even know what M4 is, but I discover that it is some sort of macro processor. So I download it, and add the folder to my Path variable. Then I start the configure again, but same result.
Is there something that I need to do to M4 to get it working? I'm truly at a loss. Thanks for your help.
If you're using debian based OS, do sudo apt-get install m4. If internet isn't there or you have just the package of m4, copy it in /opt, configure it and later on change the $PATH value to the one you have now.
If you are using cygwin, the setup installer has a working package of m4. Then there's no need to download m4 or change $PATH.
I came up with your same problem, I solved it by running the Mingw package installer, and search for msys-m4 in the list, select all and then Apply Changes, it should let you ./configure just fine :)
Assuming you are on MSYS2 (You seem to have a sh), you can install m4 via pacman -S m4.
Be careful that if you run configure through a shell, that you don't pick WSL's bash accidentally (which is in %System32%/bash.exe). Which is what happened in our build system...
I found the following guide:
http://mark.reid.name/sap/setting-up-clojure.html
but it seems like a whole lot of manual steps, and I bet it is out of date already. Installing ClojureBox on Windows was a breeze. Does anyone know of a simple installer for it? Where can I download it, and what are the steps?
Thanks!
EDIT: Tried installing cake, got:
$ sudo gem install cake
Password:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
HTTP Response 302
Also tried installing using the script:
$ sudo ./cake_install.rb
http://github.com/ninjudd/cake-standalone/raw/master/jars/cake-0.5.4.jar
[=============================================================================]
http://build.clojure.org/releases/org/clojure/clojure/1.2.0/clojure-1.2.0.jar
[=============================================================================]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (ordered_set.clj:1)
EDIT 2: Now the Java version issues :) What version of Java do I need and where to download it?
$ sudo cake test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file (ordered_set.clj:1)
My Leopard software is up to date :(
Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac. If you have problems with downloading, installing or using Java on Mac, please contact Apple Computer Technical Support.
EDIT: Hm ... I suspect that one of the suggestions I tried broke my ability to connect to the internet (both wired as well as wireless) on Apple :(
Clojure is also installable via Homebrew:
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
brew install clojure
If you just want to run clojure programs, then macports works. Bear in mind you're dependent upon the maintainer to update versions.
If you plan on writing clojure programs, then cake is a better starting point. Installation involves one of the following (your choice):
Using gem (easiest)
gem install cake
Standalone script
Download the script
Put it somewhere in your path and chmod +x cake to make it executable
Git repository
git clone git://github.com/ninjudd/cake.git
Symlink bin/cake into your path and make it executable
Cake is a full build system, but you can just use it to fire up the repl by running cake repl. There's also leiningen, but starting repls will feel faster in cake since it uses persistent JVMs.
I find Leiningen very easy to use. Just download the script, put it somewhere in your $PATH (/usr/bin/ for example) and make it executable: sudo chmod +x lein.
Now type lein repl and Leiningen will download all the files you need and create a REPL for you. It's that easy.
You may want to check CounterClockWise (an Eclipse plugin). There's a video on how to install it here. It'll give you a lot of features to play with - including a clojure REPL.
Just checked this will still work under Ubuntu. It should be the same for macs, except using whatever macs use instead of apt-get to install maven:
http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/08/clojure-emacs-swank-slime-maven-maven.html
You need to install maven, create a file, then you can just call mvn clojure:repl and everything should just work.
If you'd also like the whole emacs-swank-slime setup that's also easy now, and described there.
If you try it can you comment back here or on the blog to let me know if there are any changes I need to make for macs?
Install MacPorts and then run sudo port install clojure
I once created a package called ClojureX that was partly based on Mark's article. It's not actively maintained anymore (at least not by me), but there's no reason it wouldn't work:
http://github.com/citizen428/ClojureX