I just discovered Tellico and I wanted to try it for a Movie collection. It will not fetch data from any service.

I installed it from the Ubuntu Software Center which gave me Tellico version 2.3.4 and I notice the current version is 2.3.8; I am running it on Ubuntu 12.04. So, First question is how can I install the current version of Tellico? Do I have to compile it (if so how?). I hope updating will solve my problems.

I also have a Linux Mint system but both are running LTS Linux versions and the repositories have the same old verson of Tellico.

I created a single enty for The Maltese Falcon providing only a Title and Year and tried everything I could think of to have data fetched from IMDB and TMDb. I manually saved a movie poster image off IMDB and manually inserted that into my movie record and that worked, as expected. So, I think the application is running properly but not receiving any data from the services. It is tryign though, it just returns with No Data.

I did get an account with TMDb and obtain and configured an API Key. IMDB returns nothing.

I noticed there is no Amazon.com entry in Data Sources, but the help file indicates you have to sign up with them - but how do I do that? Also when I try fetching information from "All Sources" I get an error saying api.freebase.com is missing. I do I resove or remove that error.

Thanks, I have high hopes for this application.
Jim

I found the download to compile Tellico 2.3.8, but I have MAKE errors that I don't understand - if someone could help.

Using the instructions in the COMPILING file I had to install "cmake" - that seemed to go okay.

Here is the terminal output of my attempt to do the cmake.

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jim2@green:~/bin/Tellico/tellico-2.3.8/build$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found.   Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
-- Looking for sys/types.h
-- Looking for sys/types.h - found
-- Looking for stdint.h
-- Looking for stdint.h - found
-- Looking for stddef.h
-- Looking for stddef.h - found
-- Check size of unsigned char
-- Check size of unsigned char - done
-- Check size of unsigned short
-- Check size of unsigned short - done
-- Check size of unsigned long
-- Check size of unsigned long - done
-- Check size of unsigned int
-- Check size of unsigned int - done
-- Check size of short
-- Check size of short - done
-- Check size of long
-- Check size of long - done
-- Check size of int
-- Check size of int - done
-- Looking for strlwr
-- Looking for strlwr - not found.
-- Looking for strupr
-- Looking for strupr - not found.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE):
  ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
  /home/jim2/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:35 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
jim2@green:~/bin/Tellico/tellico-2.3.8/build$

I'm not sure what this is telling me and how to resolve it, or them. Not sure if there is one or two errors.

Anyway - thanks for any assist someone can give.
JIm

jirving wrote:I installed it from the Ubuntu Software Center which gave me Tellico version 2.3.4 and I notice the current version is 2.3.8; I am running it on Ubuntu 12.04. So, First question is how can I install the current version of Tellico? Do I have to compile it (if so how?). I hope updating will solve my problems.

I also have a Linux Mint system but both are running LTS Linux versions and the repositories have the same old verson of Tellico.

I created a single enty for The Maltese Falcon providing only a Title and Year and tried everything I could think of to have data fetched from IMDB and TMDb. I manually saved a movie poster image off IMDB and manually inserted that into my movie record and that worked, as expected. So, I think the application is running properly but not receiving any data from the services. It is tryign though, it just returns with No Data.

I did get an account with TMDb and obtain and configured an API Key. IMDB returns nothing.

I noticed there is no Amazon.com entry in Data Sources, but the help file indicates you have to sign up with them - but how do I do that? Also when I try fetching information from "All Sources" I get an error saying api.freebase.com is missing. I do I resove or remove that error.

Most of those issues are because of having the older version of Tellico. Some of the websites and data sources change their layout or method of searching, so Tellico has to be updated to stay in sync. That's the case for IMDB and Freebase, and maybe TMDB, but I don't remember exactly.

To fetch data, use the Search... button. Then you don't have to create an entry and then update.

Open the Settings dialog and add a new data source for Amazon. In there is a link to where you can sign up for an account to search.

I think you can download the latest version of Tellico through this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~dominik-stadler/+archive/ppa

jirving wrote:I found the download to compile Tellico 2.3.8, but I have MAKE errors that I don't understand - if someone could help.

Using the instructions in the COMPILING file I had to install "cmake" - that seemed to go okay.

Here is the terminal output of my attempt to do the cmake.

[code]jim2@green:~/bin/Tellico/tellico-2.3.8/build$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.

You need a compiler, like g++.

My knowledge of Ubuntu is limited, but you can run
apt-get build-dep tellico
and it should install all the packages you need to do the compilation, I think.

Thank you Robby

I looked at Dominik Stadler PPA and that looks promising. I added the PPA that includes the newer version of Tellico and the suggested one for Subversion and they show up in my Software Sources now.

I removed the old version of Tellico using Software Center. I was kinda hoping to see a new version of Tellico in the Software Center, but not surprised it was not there.

I am a little gun-shy as to what to do next - I am sure I need to do a "sudo apt-get XYZ install", but what should XYZ be? How to I request the proper version (2.3. of Tellico from that repository and not just get the old one again?

Thanks again,
Jim

I got version 2.3.8 installed and it works, I haven't done a lot of experimenting yet, but it does fetch data via the Internet. - thanks for the help.

In case other people are in the same situation I was, here is what I did (after adding the dominick-stadler PPA)
I read a little more about "apt-get" due to it being a few years since I familiarized myself with that tool and its options.

Then in terminal I did:

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apt-cache search tellico

That provides info on Tellico and assured me that it was referring to what I wanted.
Then the terminal command:

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 apt-cache policy tellico

which lists the versions available (2.3.8 and 2.3.4) the newer one was listed first.

I was now at the point where I did not know how to tell apt-get install which one to install. So, I decided to just try it.
Terminal command

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apt-get install tellico

That automatically selected the newest version for me. I suspect it elected the first one in the list proved by the Policy search.

So, all is well and I refreshed my understanding of the usage of the APT Package tools also.

Thanks developers and maintainers of Tellico. I understand the problems of keeping up with changes to the various data providers on the Internet is not easy - they like to make changes to their sites and data formats that break the users such as Tellico.

Jim

jirving wrote:I got version 2.3.8 installed and it works, I haven't done a lot of experimenting yet, but it does fetch data via the Internet. - thanks for the help.

That's great to hear, thanks for the detailed follow-up.