Howto setup LDTP in SUSE Linux 9.1

From LDTP

These are the steps to install ldtp onto your system. Please have a look at it.

Installation of LDTP onto your system.

    1. Install the SUSE 9.1 onto your system. Select Gnome as your
       default session while installation of SUSE 9.1 (you can do that
       at the time of installation by selecting in the software
       packages).  
       
    2. After the installation of SUSE 9.1 onto your system then install
       the devel packages.
       

Following are the steps to install the devel packages .

    1. Goto menu -> System -> Yast.
               
    2. Select “Install and Remove Software”.
               
    3. In the “Filter Search”, click on “Selection”. Then
          select the following components
       
          - Graphical Base System
                       
          - Gnome System
                       
          - Help and support documentation
                       
          - Office applications
                       
          - C / C++ compiler and tools
                       
          - Gnome development
                       
    4. After the selection of all these click on the 'Accept' button
               

    1. After doing all the above steps, all the required Devel packages
       will be installed. In the same manner, also install  
       
       3.1 at-spi (in YaSt – search – search -type 'spi')
       
       3.2 Gnome packages (type “gnome” in search and install all of
       them)
       
       3.3 At-poke  
       
       3.4 Gedit  
       
       3.5 Libtool
       
       3.6 Python packages  
       
       from the “Install and Remove software”. Make sure all of them
       are installed. To install At-poke from the site, click on the
       following URL
       http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1073397/com/at-
       poke-0.2.2-0.ximian.8.1.i586.rpm.html , and from the download
       options select any one of them.
       
    2. Goto menu -> Gnome Control Center and click on the
       accessibilities –> assistive technology support . Enable the
       assistive technology support. After enabling, logout and login.
       If “Gnome Control Center” is not in menu bar, then in the
       terminal type “gnome-control-center” and press the enter key.
       The “Gnome Control Center” window pops up. Enable the assistive
       technology support.
       
    3. Once this is done, download the ldtp framework from the site
       http://www.gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/downloads.html . Download the
       framework to the directory you want it to be in. Then using the
       terminal or the shell, extract the file. Type “tar xzf
       [filename.tgz]” and press the enter key. “filename” is the name
       of the downloaded file and it's extension is .tgz.
       
    4. If not in root directory, then change to root and execute the
       following commands in root (only root can do it).
       
       For Automake type (ln -
       s /usr/bin/automake-1.8 /usr/bin/automake-1.4)
       
       For Aclocal type (ln -
       s /usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.4)
       
    5. Change the directory to ldtp ( cd ldtp).
       
    6. Type ./autogen.sh (without any space).
       
    7. After the auto generation, type “make” and press enter.
       
    8. After “make”, change to “server” directory (cd
       server).Type ./server.py  
       
       and press enter key.
       
    9. Let the server be running.  
       
   10. In a new terminal change to ldtp->src. There is "ldtp" which is
       a executible file.
       
   11. To run ldtp, type ./ldtp and press enter key.