[Reopen] Need help for compilation under Mint

[dexter74]

Hello,
I would like a little help on the compilation of your tools.

Your GIT and site lacks clear information on the compilation which I find its a shame.
On the other hand, if documentation could be created for Ubuntu, Debian and Mint.

As it stands, little useful information on the net and makes compilation difficult.

[crobinso]

I don't use mint so I can't give details on how to run virt-manager there. But I imagine package names are similar to ubuntu. Generally the steps to get it working on a distro is: install the distro version of the package with native tools (yum, apt, etc, virt-manager is usually there), and that typically installs all the dependencies you need. Then checkout virt-manager and just run ./virt-manager --debug from the git checkout. If you hit errors you can ask about them here. I don't generally aim to have the INSTALL docs track all possible distro package dependency names because it often goes out of date. I'll take patches to update the docs though

[dexter74]

Hello,

I don't use mint so I can't give details on how to run virt-manager there. But I imagine package names are similar to ubuntu. Generally the steps to get it working on a distro is: install the distro version of the package with native tools (yum, apt, etc, virt-manager is usually there), and that typically installs all the dependencies you need. Then checkout virt-manager and just run ./virt-manager --debug from the git checkout. If you hit errors you can ask about them here. I don't generally aim to have the INSTALL docs track all possible distro package dependency names because it often goes out of date. I'll take patches to update the docs though

Would it be possible to let me answer before closing an incident, it's not super constructive