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

[Nils Brodersen]

Mark Ness schrieb:
> Andrew Walbran wrote:
>>On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:28 am, Nils Brodersen wrote:
>>>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?
> 
> Is libxext even the same as libXext? I have libXext but not libxext 
> (case sensitive)?

libxext-dev is installed, and the names seem to be case-insensitive. To 
renew my question: Do I have to install some special package to make 
libXext a working environment? Or, if not, can I tell kde that there IS 
a libXext-environment? Can I at least test whether libxext is working??

Nils