Installation Instructions - Library Dependencies

UltraScan requires a number of libraries that are dynamically linked to the executables in the UltraScan software package. Normally, these libraries are installed by default on the system. However, some libraries may not be available in the correct format (certain required options may have been excluded during compilation), or may be altogether missing. For the convenience of the UltraScan user we offer precompiled versions of the libraries on the download page.

To install the libraries, download the needed library file(s) and extract them in a directory that is included in your dynamic link path (/usr/lib, or /usr/local/lib, for example), then run "ldconfig" to reload the dynamically shared library table. Here, "/path" refers to the path to your downloaded library tar.gz file, and it is assumed that you want to extract the files to "/usr/lib/.":

cd /usr
tar -xvzf /path/qt-version-distribution.tar.gz
ldconfig

This will also install all needed dynamic links, and extract to /usr/lib. When extracting the qt libraries to a specific directory such as /usr/lib/qt/lib, change directory to /usr/lib/qt instead.

Note:
When installing qt or qwt libraries please make sure that older versions of the library are not laying around that may conflict with the newer version.


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Last modified on April 18, 2005