[kde-linux] Installing KDE-3.5.2 from source on Debian - no working libxext

[Mark Ness]

Andrew Walbran wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:28 am, Nils Brodersen wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> When running 'configure' in the kdelibs-3.5.2-directory, it ends up with
>> the error message
>> checking for libXext... no
>> configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed. Since configure
>> can't find it itself, we stop here assuming that make wouldn't find
>> them either.
>>
>> I am using a system based on Debian sarge/etch, XFree86 4.3.0.1. libxext.a
>> libxext.so
>> libxext.so.6
>> libxext.so.6.4
>> are located in /usr/X11R6/lib and I can't find a hint what to do...
>>     
> Is the package libxext-dev installed?
>
> By the way, kde 3.5.2 is in Debian Sid.
>
>   
Is libxext even the same as libXext? I have libXext but not libxext 
(case sensitive)?