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Q: (Boson 0.11) Extraction of the installer fails

A: You need at least 190MB to start the installer of boson 0.11. If you do not have that much space in /tmp, try

./boson-0.11-x86.run --target <directory>''

where <directory> specifies a directory where you have at least 190 MB. For example:

./boson-0.11-x86.run --target $HOME/boson_tmp

Q: When starting boson I get
WARNING: [QLibrary* loadLibrary(const QString&)] library GL could not be loaded using standard QLibrary/dlopen(). Trying to guess correct filename

and a lot of directory names and WARNINGS follow. Boson does not start.

A: try LD_PRELOAD=libGL.so ./boson

Q: (Boson 0.12) Building boson from source fails with an error like

 [...]/boson-all-0.12/code/boson/programs/bomodelpixmaps.cpp:468: undefined reference to `BoModelPixmapsGUI::BoModelPixmapsGUI(QWidget*, char const*, unsigned int)'
 [...]/boson-all-0.12/code/boson/programs/bomodelpixmaps.cpp:468: undefined reference to `BoModelPixmapsGUI::BoModelPixmapsGUI(QWidget*, char const*, unsigned int)'

A: This is a bug in cmake <= 2.4.2: it picks up the (correct) uic binary from Qt 3.x, but it just uses "uic" in the command and thus uses whatever is in your $PATH (e.g. the uic from Qt4). To fix it, open the file CMake/Modules/kde3uic.cmake in your cmake installation and replace the line

 EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND uic

by something like

 EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND /usr/lib/qt3/bin/uic

where your uic from qt3 would be in /usr/lib/qt3/bin/uic.

Then run

 find -name "*.ui" | xargs touch

in your boson sources and run make again. That should fix the problem.

Q: Cmake says "CMake Error: This project requires some variables to be set,

and cmake can not find them. Please set the following variables: /your/path/to/bosonsource/build/code/boson/gameengine/script/PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH"

A: Install the package "libpythonize0" and run cmake again.

Q: (Boson 0.12) Building boson from source fails with an error like

 [...]
 undefined reference to `forkpty'

A: Open code/boson/gameengine/script/CMakeLists.txt and change the last line to this:

 target_link_libraries(bosonscript ${PYTHON_LIBRARIES} -lutil)

Q: (Boson 0.13 on FreeBSD): make fails with an error like

 /root/boson-all-0.13/code/boson/gameview/bosonufogamegui.cpp:207: undefined reference to `BoCurrentInfo::cpuTime(unsigned long*, unsigned long*, long*, long*) const'
/root/boson-build/code/boson/libbosongamelib.a(bosonufogamegui.o)(.text+0x25c7): In function `BosonUfoGameGUI::updateUfoLabelMemoryUsage()':
/root/boson-all-0.13/code/boson/gameview/bosonufogamegui.cpp:803: undefined reference to `BoCurrentInfo::memoryInUse(QString*, QString*, QString*, QString*, QString*, QString*, QString*, QString*) const'

A: Update to current svn, or copy the file http://boson.eu.org/download/0.13_fixes/boinfo_freebsd.cpp to code/boson/info/, overwriting the existing file there.

Q: (Boson 0.13) I have python and kde installed but it can not compile.

A: You must install development packages :

python2.x-dev
kdelibsx-dev

Q: (Boson 0.13) When compiling boson I an error similar to this:

 make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.so -lpthread -ldl  -lutil
-lm', needed by `code/boson/programs/bocommandframetester'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [code/boson/programs/CMakeFiles/bocommandframetester.dir/all]

A: Open the file cmake/modules/FindBosonPythonLibs.cmake and replace the line

 set(PYTHON_LIBRARIES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY} ${_python_dependency_libs}")

 set(PYTHON_LIBRARIES ${PYTHON_LIBRARY} ${_python_dependency_libs})

(i.e. remove the quotation marks). Then re-run make.

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