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I am using KDE and I am having tremendous trouble installing an IRC client! I have gone to numerous websites and downloaded the packages, un-tarred them and installed them. I have looked in the manual and documentation areas for each of these websites and I still haven't been able to correctly install in IRC client. I have also tried to go to rpm drake and type IRC, but it only gives me a Mozilla IRC plug-in. I am wondering if there is a place that I can set RPM drake to look up in order to find and automatically set up Kirc or something like that because I have independently downloaded Kirc and I still couldn't get it to work.

I would greatly appreciate any help or pointers that anyone could supply. Thank you for your time.

Brandon Paredes

I am behind a router, but i know that it is set up correctly to let traffic in and out, so that is not the problem. I don't really care which client that I am using, as long as I can get onto IRC. I have tried Ksirc, and it didn't work. Maybe I am not installing correctly or something, but for some reason all of the options that I have tried haven't worked as of yet. If some one could give me a step by step, that would be most excellent.

Okay guys, I have been trying to get Kirc to work properly, but still I have not been sucessful. Here is what happened when I tried to install Kirc. Keep in mind that have already downloaded and sucessfully installed the latest version of Qt (3.3), which is exactly what the instruction manual for Kirc suggested. Anyway, here is what happened in the console, pay specific attention to the final line.

[code:1][root@localhost kirc-0.9.5-04]# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -Wall -s) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -Wall -s) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 -Wall -s) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 -Wall -s) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... ./configure: line 1459: test: /usr/ucb: binary operator expected
/usr/bin/nm -B
checking for c++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if c++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if c++ static flag -static works... none
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... no
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
creating libtool
checking for AIX... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for inline... no
checking for off_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... no
checking for alloca... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... no
checking for argz.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for nl_types.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for values.h... yes
checking for alloca.h... (cached) no
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for __argz_count... yes
checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/cdefs.h... yes
checking for fnmatch.h... yes
checking for sysent.h... no
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for QT-1.3x... configure: error: QT-1.30 (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
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Thank you for any help you can provide.

Brandon Paredes