compiling programs from src

[Srinivasan Ranganathan <srini@jsure.com>]

Howdy list

Im a debian newbie. Installed from knoppix and haven't run apt-get 
dist-upgrade (yet). I tried to compile ksim and gkrellm from source. 
Running ./configure fails when trying to compile a small kde program or 
Qt program. How do I find out where they are installed and how do I tell 
the config script where to look for them?

TIA
Srini

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