[kde-linux] prefix in Kubuntu

[Jim Philips]

Thanks to everybody. I had trouble installing the recommended packages because 
I didn't have the necessary repository enabled in Synaptic. So, instead of 
telling me that the package wasn't available, it gave me some nightmarish 
dependency errors.

On Saturday 19 August 2006 02:21, you wrote:
> Andrew Walbran wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 August 2006 9:59 am, Jim Philips wrote:
> >> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that. But it didn't get me any
> >> further.
> >>
> >> 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!
> >> rebus at rebus-desktop:~/Desktop/basket-0.6.0Beta2.1$ kde-config --prefix
> >> /usr
> >>
> >> I'm thinking I need to install another package. But I have no idea which
> >> one.
> >
> > Try installing kdelibs-dev and kdebase-dev.
> > $ sudo aptitude install kdelibs-dev kdebase-dev
>
> The problem is that packages with the name "kdelibs-dev" doesn't seem to
> exist.  Debian does list: "kdelibs4-dev".
>
> I think that you might have some luck with the Debian package search:
>
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
>
> If you search on: "Source package names".  If you do this, you will get
> a list of all the Debian packages based on that source package.  Try
> searching on:
>
> 	kdelibs
> 	kdebase
>
> and look for the "*-dev" packages.