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Re: compiling error: xauth not found



Horacio,

	'xauth' is indeed present in Debian - you just havent installed
it. It is part of the package xbase-clients on Slink.

Regards,
Jor-el

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
		-- Mark Twain

On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:

> I'm trying to compile ssh1 and found the following error while
> running ./configure.  I su'ed root and copied the tarball to /usr/local:
> 
> $ su
> ...
> /usr/local/ssh-1.2.27# ./configure
> ...
> checking for xauth... no
> configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting
> 
> Since there's no xauth, but .Xauthority in Debian, how do I tell the
> configure script about this?
> 
> BTW, I know there is a ssh1 deb package, and even a ssh2 deb package,
> but I'd like to do it by hand.
> 
> TIA
> -- 
> Horacio
> homega@ciberia.es
> Valencia - ESPAÑA
> 
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