# Installing weft-qda / sqlite-ruby on linpus **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-weft-qda-sqlite-ruby-on-linpus/158043 "2009-01-18T13:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sebastian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-weft-qda-sqlite-ruby-on-linpus/158043/1 "2009-01-18T13:34:44Z")
Hello everyone, This is my first post here, and I’m not even sure it’s in the right place, but here goes… I have an Acer Aspire One laptop, running Linpus, and I want to install weft-qda on it ([Weft QDA - a free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysis](http://www.pressure.to/qda/)). It has sqlite-ruby as a dependency. GEM offers to install either sqlite-ruby version 2.2.3 or 2.2.2, but both fail, with this error: checking for main() in -lsqlite… no checking for sqlite.h… no \*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\* Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log for more details. You may need configuration options. The mkmf.log file: have\_library: checking for main() in -lsqlite… -------------------- no “gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux -I. -I/usr/local -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D\_FORTIFY\_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -fPIC conftest.c -L”." -L"/usr/lib" -L"/usr/local" -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lruby-static -lsqlite -lpthread -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc" /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite collect2: ld returned 1 exit status checked program was: /\* begin _/ 1: /top/ 2: int main() { return 0; } 3: int t() { void ((volatile p)()); p = (void (()()))main; return 0; } /_ end \*/ “gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux -I. -I/usr/local -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D\_FORTIFY\_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -fPIC conftest.c -L”." -L"/usr/lib" -L"/usr/local" -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lruby-static -lsqlite -lpthread -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc" /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite collect2: ld returned 1 exit status checked program was: /\* begin _/ 1: /top/ 2: int main() { return 0; } 3: int t() { main(); return 0; } /_ end \*/ * * * have\_header: checking for sqlite.h… -------------------- no “gcc -E -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux -I. -I/usr/local -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D\_FORTIFY\_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector –param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Wall -fPIC conftest.c -o conftest.i” conftest.c:1:20: error: sqlite.h: No such file or directory checked program was: /\* begin _/ 1: #include \ /_ end \*/ * * * So I probably need to install some libraries/headers as the error says. So far I’ve installed: ruby-sqlite3 sqlite-devel pcsqlite-devel libgda-sqlite-devel But it’s still not working, I keep getting the same error message, and I have no idea what to do next. If someone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful. Kind regards, Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sebastian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-weft-qda-sqlite-ruby-on-linpus/158043/2 "2009-01-18T15:01:03Z")
Hi Sebastiaan Sebastiaan Kamp wrote: > This is my first post here, and I’m not even sure it’s in the right > place, but here goes… It would be better on the Weft QDA users’ mailing list: [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users) > I have an Acer Aspire One laptop, running Linpus, and I want to install > weft-qda on it ([Weft QDA - a free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysis](http://www.pressure.to/qda/)). Christophe Lejeune has provided some helpful instructions on setting Weft QDA on Linux, discussing different options: [http://analyses.ishs.ulg.ac.be/logiciels/weft-qda.installation.debian.en.html](http://analyses.ishs.ulg.ac.be/logiciels/weft-qda.installation.debian.en.html) A big problem is that the version you are trying to install (1.0.1) has dependencies on old versions of GTK and wxWidgets on Linux, and most distros make these hard to support. You will be able to install sqlite, but from user reports it will be very difficult to get wxruby 0.6.0 (now four years old) working on modern Linux distros. The development version of Weft QDA works with latest versions, but isn’t ready for production use yet; 1.9.0 is only alpha quality, and whilst the latest unreleased code is much better, it has a whole new set of dependencies because it uses Ruby 1.9. I don’t like to say it, but using 1.0.1 on Windows (possibly via Wine) might be the best option if you have an analysis you want to proceed with now. Unlike Linux, Weft QDA should run on fairly ancient versions of Windows (eg NT/2000 - and probably 98). > It has sqlite-ruby as a dependency. > GEM offers to install either sqlite-ruby version 2.2.3 or 2.2.2, but > both fail, with this error: Have a think about the options, then see how you want to proceed. alex ---
**Author:** ![sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sebastian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sebastian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-weft-qda-sqlite-ruby-on-linpus/158043/3 "2009-01-21T17:28:15Z")
Thank you very much Alex, I got the impression it was going to be hard. Going to try it with Wine first beceause I’d like to keep this fast Linpus Linux. Greetings, Sebastian