Re: kde 3.4 headers

[Paul <paula4l@access4less.net>]

Paul wrote:
> linux.eqed wrote:
>
> > Hello, I had a fully functional kde 3.3 environment setup, I upgraded 
> > to kde
> > 3.4 using http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org
> >
> > everything seemed fine and great until I went to compile a program, I
> > got the following error message during the configure
> >
> > checking for KDE... configure: error:
> > in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will
> > fail.
> > So, check this please and use another prefix!
> >
> >
> > So I figured the headers were not upgraded when I did the apt-get
> > dist-upgrade..
> >
> > But I can't upgrade the headers using root@1[kdmtheme-0.8.2]# apt-get 
> > install kde-devel
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Package kde-devel is not available, but is referred to by another
> > package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > E: Package kde-devel has no installation candidate
> >
> > how do I now install the headers, or at least verify they are on my
> > system? 
> > Thanks, Steve.
>
> I found similar difficulties and ended up doing individual 'apt-get 
> install kdebase-dev kdelib4-dev' and so on.  I'm not sure why they 
> didn't upgrade.  I used synaptic to look to see which packages didn't 
> get installed, using the sort features it has.
>
> good luck
>
> Paul