SVN Installation

From Moto4Lin

See separate compile instructions for Mac OS X.

Obtaining moto4lin source from Subversion

You can get more detailed instructions here, but the summary is:

svn co https://moto4lin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/moto4lin/trunk/moto4lin moto4lin

Obtaining moto4lin source from CVS (obsolete!)

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@moto4lin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moto4lin login
<press enter>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@moto4lin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moto4lin co -P moto4lin

Compiling moto4lin

For compiling, you will need devel packages for libqt3, libusb, and zlib. Qt3 must be no less than version 3.3 (for compiling with older versions, try the patch here).

To test your version of qt

$ qmake -v
Qmake version: 1.07a (Qt 3.3.6)
Qmake is free software from Trolltech AS.

This version of Qt, 3.3.6, works well. If you do not have have the correct version of Qt, you need to install it with your distro's package manager or download and install it yourself. If the above command tells you you have Qt 4.x and you are sure you have Qt 3.3 installed, the you need to locate the Qt 3.3 qmake. Look in /usr/qt/3/bin/qmake and/or use your package manager to list the files in the Qt 3.3 package. Then call qmake with the full path or add the Qt 3.3 dir to the beginning of your path. (Using Qt 4.x will cause 'File generated with too old version of Qt Designer' errors.) Cd into the directory with the moto4lin source, and run the following:

$ qmake
$ make
# make install

The program should now be compiled and installed, but this is probably not all that needs to be done.

# chown root /usr/bin/moto4lin
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/moto4lin

The above gives possibility to use software without necessity of logging as root. You can also run the command with sudo command.

For Motorola V547 one must install p2kmoto which can be obtained from here. The package installs /usr/local/bin/p2ktest which can be used for checking connection with the phone. One needs root privileges for using it so he or she has to do:

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/p2ktest
or
$ su - -c /usr/local/bin/p2ktest

If everything goes well, listing of files and directories stored in telephone appearers on the screen.