Re: kde apps as .debs??

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> I've got KDE installed on my slink system but I'd like to add some kde
> specific applications.  Are there .deb files out there somewhere for things
> like Korganizer?  Is there some central location where they may be downloaded? 

KDE is working out some license issues which prevent Debian from including it
as a proper package system.  It is being worked on.

> 
> If not...
> I tried building Korganizer from source but the configure script complained
> about not being able to find the qt libraries.  I know they are installed
> properly as kde is working well.  Is this a common problem and/or what am I
> doing wrong?
> 

To compile against a lib you need the lib and the lib-dev package so:

libfoo needs libfoo-dev if you want to compile something using libfoo.