Re: Compiling Kernel Problems xconfig

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

James Hosken (<james@jamesho.co.uk>) wrote:

> I'm working my way through the "Creating custom kernels with Debian's
> kernel-package system" from
>
>http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/config-kernel-pkg.html.en
> 
> When I get to make xconfig I get the error
> 
> 
> james@fork:/usr/src/linux$  make xconfig
> make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
> *
> * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the
> * QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR
> * environment variable is set to the correct location.

Trying to compile Kernel 2.6?

> *
> make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck] Error 1
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
> james@fork:/usr/src/linux$
> 
> 
> I really don't know what QT is and what to install. Can any one
> enlighten me, thanks.

You probably need to install libqt2 and libqt2-headers or libqt3 and
libqt3-headers. Use apt-cache libqt to get more information on
available packages.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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