Re: compiling error: xauth not found

[J Horacio MG <homega@ciberia.es>]

$ dpkg -l | less

ii  xbase-clients   3.3.2.3a-11    miscellaneous X clients

may be xauth is somewhere else?

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

Regards,
-- 
Horacio
homega@ciberia.es
Valencia - ESPAÑA