Install Alerttail GUI
Alerttail GUI is distributed in two ways:
* Binary ubuntu deb i386 package.
* Source gz.
Click here for Alerttail Gui execution info.
Binary Installation:
Debian/Ubuntu:
* Install dependencies:
(enable /etc/apt/sources.list backports repositories to get libqt4 4.3.0)
sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui libboost-regex1.34.1
(note libboost-regex1.33.1 it is supported only with source compilation not debs)
* Install alerttail gui:
download alerttailGui-versionNumber-deb.tar.gz
extract it into a temporary location and install it. AlerttailGui is shipped with libconfig dependency which is not included into ubuntu repositories
type:
cd myTmp
tar zxvf
cd alerttailGui-versionNumber-deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
* Uninstall alerttail:
sudo dpkg -r alerttailgui
Alerttail deb will install the following files:
/usr/local/bin/alerttailGui
/usr/local/share/alerttail/index.html
/usr/share/doc/alerttailgui
/usr/share/doc/alerttailgui/README
/usr/share/doc/alerttailgui/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/alerttailgui/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/alerttailgui/INSTALL
/usr/local/bin/alerttailGui is the binary file to execute
Source Installation:
Alerttail needs the following lib Dependencies:
Core Madatory:
-Qt4 4.3.0 http://trolltech.com/products/qt
-boost_regex 1_33_1 (or 1_34_1) http://www.boost.org/
Debian/Ubuntu:
Install a C/C++ compiler :
Alerttail has been tested with gcc 4.1.2, on Ubuntu install it with
sudo apt-get install g++
* Install dependencies:
Core Libs:
sudo apt-get install g++ libqt4-dev libboost-regex-dev
* Install alerttail unpack it with
tar zxvf alerttailgui-versionNumber.tar.gz
first install alerttail dependency libconfig
cd alerttailGui-versionNumber/libs
tar zxvf libconfig-1.2.tar.gz
cd libconfig-1.2 && ./configure && make && sudo make install
then install alerttail gui
cd to alerttailgui/Build directory
type
qmake && make && sudo make install
alerttailgui will be installed in /usr/local/bin
*Install into a non standard location
You can customize libs linking paths by changing qmake command with:
qmake "unix:LIBS += -lboost_regex-gcc -L/path/to/boost/regex/lib" "INCLUDEPATH += /path/to/boost/regex/include"
You can customize install path by changing qmake command with:
qmake "target.path = /path/to/alerttailGUI/bin"
Example:
qmake "unix:LIBS += -lboost_regex-gcc -L/path/to/boost/regex/lib" "INCLUDEPATH += /path/to/boost/regex/include" "target.path = /path/to/alerttailGUI/bin" && make && sudo make install
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Execution:
To execute Alerttail after installing type:
alerttailgui
or
/usr/local/bin/alerttailGui
