Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:59:21PM -0400, Hamid wrote:
> I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0 In
> RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop
> snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the
> application and use it.
>
> But in Debian, I am having hard times with this type of approach. For
> example I had to spend a lot of time to figure out why I could not
> compile the recent version of "Downloader For X". It turned out to be
> that the standard installation of GTK libraries does not install
> gtk-config and you have to install it manually. Or for KDevelop it
> complains that there is no libqt3 installed but I have the recent
> libraries for Qt but they are just the libraries and there is no
> "qtconfig" as opposed to RedHat installation of Qt, and I guess that's
> why the "./configure" script can not find it.
There are runtime libraries (the ones you indicate you've installed) and
development headers (the items you indicate you're missing). In most
cases the headers are in a package with the "-dev" suffix.
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Jamin W. Collins
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