Installation & Update

Inq is written in C++ using the toolkit Qt 4.3 for the window management.

If your distribution uses a package management system (such as DEB o RPM), try to install the qt4 e qt4-devel packages (or others with similar names).

If you want to install it from sources, then follow these instructions.

Inq uses libinklevel to retrieve the ink levels.

If you want to install it from the sources, then follow these instructions.

1. Download the sources (378.88 KiB, 348 downloads)
2. Unpack the sources:

   $ tar xvzf inq-1.0.0.tar.gz

3. Enter into the source tree :

   $ cd inq-1.0.0

4. Create the makefile:

   $ chmod +x ./configure
   $ ./configure

   The script may fail if it isn't able to detect the qmake tool belonging to the Qt 4.x. In that case you could save in the environment variable QMAKE the path to the homonymous program and launch the script again .

   $ QMAKE=<path-to-qmake> ./configure

5. Build Inq:

   $ make

6. Install Inq:

   $ su -c "make install"
   Parola d'ordine: <tua password> 

   Inq tries to add your user to the lp group, in order to let you to execute the program without being root.

At every start-up Inq connects to the server www.fioreltech.net, in order to verify if there is a newer version of the program.

In the affirmative case a label is shown in the very right of the status bar and it may be clicked in order to open in the predefined browser a web page containing the updates.