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Install KeePassX on Debian Etch

Install KeePassX on Debian Etch

Introduction
Solution

Install recent version of qt4
Install Source Repositories
Download Source
Make
Errors
Install
Test

References

Solution

Install from source. These instructions were borrowed from the following comment (thank you "John"):

http://www.keepassx.org/howto/setup/inst_source_tar#comment-15355

Install recent version of qt4

I installed from lenny, which is not ideal. The above instructions do not say to do this, but I had already done it to resolve stability problems (see Install italc notes).

$ sudo apt-get install qt4-dev qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer

Install Source Repositories

You may need to add the lenny source repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib

Download Source

$ cd
$ mkdir keepassx
$ cd keepassx
$ apt-get source keepassx

Make

$ cd keepass*
$ qmake-qt4
Project MESSAGE: See 'INSTALL' for configuration options.
Project MESSAGE: Install Prefix: /usr
Project MESSAGE: *** Makefile successfully generated.
Project MESSAGE: *** Start make now.
$ make

If you downloaded the source from KeePassX itself, then you will probably need to cd into the src directory, delete the Makefile that was created and run qmake-qt4 again from there (ie: qmake-qt4; cd src; rm Makefile ; qmake-qt4 ; cd ..

Errors

If the above still gives an error about libXtst (and mind didn't), you can either fix the source code, or simply:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6 /usr/lib/libXtst.so
$ make

This section has not been tested by the author

Install

$ sudo make install

Test

You should see it installed under your Utilities menu, but you may need to log off/on for this to appear. Alternatively I usually find editing the menu and resaving has the same effect.

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References

KeePassX

Forum post detailing install method

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