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Thursday, April 15th 2004, 7:01pm

./configure error

hey,

i've debian linux 3.1 sarge with kernel 2.6.5.

my problem is, i cann't install kopete, because if i make ./configure, the configure has an error at the end. the error is:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

what means that?? (X..)

what must i do that this error go away??


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Friday, April 16th 2004, 12:32am

X error

I don't know how much linux you've done, so i will assume you want to know what x is.

X is short for X-windows. it is the program/libraries that allow your computer to show applications on the screen (very simply). Linux uses XFree86 (a version of x-windows - see http://www.xfree.org/ )

If it can't find the xfree "includes" that means (again, very simply) that it cannot find the libraries that allow applications to interface with it.

What you need to do to fix it is to install the relevant libraries, this will usually be a package called "xfree86-devel" or something similar. use the debian package manager (i have not used it recently but I believe it is very nice) to install this

Then run ./configure again, and see what it does. If it complains something is missing, check you have the "development headers" installed: they are usually called <something>-devel

R

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 6:16am

I've not much done with linux. I start in November 2003 with Suse and now with Debian.

OK, I'll do it.

Thanks

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