Did that and it ran through a series of commands and look like it was unpacking cmake. But after that I had the same problem?????

I looked very closely: Did you notice the blank between 'cmake' and '..'? It has to be there. I am just mentioning it, because your error messages don't show it.

Actually yes but when I do that the following error comes up

CMake Error: The source directory "/home/owner/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$

and I did the sudo command in this build directory

That is weird. Here's what I see with a fresh downloaded and extracted tar-ball:

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thb@dollo:~/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1> ls
AUTHORS         COPYING              INSTALL     README
cmake           extract-messages.sh  po          reconciliationreport
CMakeLists.txt  icalendarexport      printcheck
thb@dollo:~/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1> mkdir build
thb@dollo:~/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1> cd build
thb@dollo:~/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build> cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- 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
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
:
:
:
-- Found KDE3 dcopidl2cpp preprocessor: /opt/kde3/bin/dcopidl2cpp
-- Found KDE3 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /opt/kde3/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found Libical version 0.44
-- Looking for include files HAVE_LIBINTL_H
-- Looking for include files HAVE_LIBINTL_H - found
-- Looking for dgettext
-- Looking for dgettext - found
-- Found Gettext: built in libc
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/thb/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build



Ok I did a fresh download and then extracted with your instructions

tar -xvjf kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1.tar.bz2

but this is what I get

owner@ubuntu:~$ tar -xvjf kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1.tar.bz2
tar: kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
owner@ubuntu:~$

which usually means, that the file is not there. Where did you download it to? Use 'ls' to check for its presence.

I downloaded to my desktop, then I right click and chose "extract here" then opened my terminal.

Im sorry, but how do I do an "Is"?

Im just confused as to why this is becoming so hard to do.

Check the previous entry viewtopic.php?f=69&t=85763&start=10#p147540 which shows the output of 'ls' right here on my system. You need a console window to do all that.

p.s. It's not hard once you know all the little steps. Some call this the learning curve

Is the console different from the terminal?

Also, I checked your input for the "is" command but Im still not sure what to do. Do I just copy and paste what is showing on your system?

Console is identical to Terminal in this case.

What you see is the output of the ls command. So you simply type in 'ls' at the so called command prompt (which happens to be

thb@dollo:~/devel/kmm_plugins/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1>

in my case and then you can compare the output on your system against the one I dropped as example. I just wanted to make sure that you have the CMakeLists.txt file. If you want, you can copy/paste the output of your commands here for further analysis. It would be helpful to wrap them inside a code block (use the button labeled Code located over the edit window of this forum).

Ok here is what I did and what resulted. Please look and see if I am doing it right.

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owner@ubuntu:~$ cd kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ Is
Is: command not found
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ cd build
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$ Is
Is: command not found
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$


Sorry, but it is LS (in lower-case) not 1s or Is. If you want to learn more about ls simply type man ls (again, that is lowercase LS)

Ok that does make a difference Below are 3 times I did the ls command and what resulted.

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owner@ubuntu:~$ ls
build    Documents              FrostWire               ls         Pictures
cd       etc                    Is                      mkdir      Public
cmake    examples.desktop       kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1  Music      Templates
Desktop  Firefox_wallpaper.png  kmymoney-plugins-build  owner.kmy  Videos


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owner@ubuntu:~$ cd kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ ls
build


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owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ cd build
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$ ls
owner@ubuntu:~/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$


Which shows that you are not going to the folder with the extracted source.
Try:

cd Desktop
ls

There should be a source folder somewhere over there.

Thank you Hei Ky, I did that and this is what I got

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owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ls
Buddy                   kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1.tar.bz2
Christine               libbarry0_0.16-0_ubuntu904_i386
frostwire.desktop       libbarry0_0.16-0_ubuntu904_i386.deb
kmymoney2.desktop       TDIW
kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1  Watchtower Library 2009 - English.desktop


then I did the following and this is what happened, please notice the errors at the end

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owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ mkdir build
owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1$ cd build
owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$ cmake ..
-- 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.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindX11.cmake:362 (MESSAGE):
  Could not find X11
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindKDE3.cmake:92 (FIND_PACKAGE)
  CMakeLists.txt:30 (FIND_PACKAGE)


so I installed cmake and still got errors

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owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$ sudo aptitude install cmake[sudo] password for owner:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information     
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information     
Initializing package states... Done

owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$ cmake ..
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found.   Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindX11.cmake:362 (MESSAGE):
  Could not find X11
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindKDE3.cmake:92 (FIND_PACKAGE)
  CMakeLists.txt:30 (FIND_PACKAGE)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
owner@ubuntu:~/Desktop/kmymoney-plugins-0.3.1/build$