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I want to install the Quanta Plus, a web development IDE. When I try to configure the file using ./configure then this will display:

subhajit@Reaper:~/Downloads/kdewebdev-3.5.8$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for kde-config... not found
configure: error: The important program kde-config was not found!
Please check whether you installed KDE correctly.

I find some stuff like

sudo apt-get install kdelibs5-dev

and

sudo apt-get build-dep kstars

but this is not working.

If there is another way to install the Quanta Plus? Then please tell me how to install.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.

gertvdijk
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Forget about Quanta Plus, start looking for alternatives

The last release of Quanta Plus was about 5 years ago: version 3.5.9 (see all versions). They are working on a port to KDE 4. This port seems also a bit dead, as I see only a few commits over the last year and no tags besides the 4.2 - tag version that might work with kdev 4.2 which does not sound very much stable.

Because the whole stable source still needs Qt3 and KDE3, you won't be able to compile it anyway without huge efforts.

The kdewebdev package now contains some other useful tools, though:

  • kfilereplace
  • kimagemapeditor
  • klinkstatus
  • kommander

For alternatives to Quanta Plus see: Basic Web Development IDE/Editor like Dreamweaver?

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gertvdijk
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I'm using 12.04 LTS and was succesfull using this way to install QUANTA+:

[Update] Since Natty is not longer supported, I tried successful to use the Lucid-repositories ;) I think it's possible to install Quanta on this way up to the end-of-lifetime of lucid.... [/Update]

First you have to add the packages of LUCID to your sources list.

Open an editor of your choose with the soucres.list, I do it in this case with gedit.

# sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and insert the following lines to end of the file

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main universe restricted multiverse

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid universe main multiverse restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe main multiverse restricted

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe main multiverse restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates universe main multiverse restricted

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-updates universe main multiverse restricted

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

Now save the file and exit gedit

Update your package-sources:

# sudo apt-get update

Install QUANTA

# sudo apt-get install quanta

Install missing apps (e.g. kommander), the KDE4-versions are working with QUANTA, only cervesia can't be used.

Have fun ;)

TheAtarian
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