Problem #1. Although make menuconfig does work, and work well I would like to be able to use xconfig. it gives me this error:

i8250d:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
*
* Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the
* QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR
* environment variable is set to the correct location.
*
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck] Error 1
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

How do i fix the error so that i may run xconfig...SID w/2.6.4 alsa acpi (inspiron 8200)

Problem #2. Although gnome and twm successfully add menu icons and groups for my apt-get s, (firestarter xmms bzflag n a few more) kde doesn't except for xine-ui. read in an earlier thread to try update-menus...tried from the run command....nothing....ran from terminal got these errors

i8250d:~# update-menus
Unknown error, message=replacewith($string, $replace, $with): $replace and $with must have the same length.
install-menu: /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-dirs: aborting
update-menus[5182]: Script /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-dirs returned error status 1.
Unknown error, message=replacewith($string, $replace, $with): $replace and $with must have the same length.
install-menu: /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps: aborting
update-menus[5182]: Script /etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps returned error status 1.

tried it with kde and with kde-core which im using now to add only what i need

Please help

"apt-get install libqt3-dev" should fix the xconfig problem.

Woooooooo!

That's a large package:
i8250d:~# apt-get install libqt3-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-3.2 g++-3.2 gcc-3.2 gcc-3.2-base libaudio-dev libexpat1-dev
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libice-dev libjpeg62-dev liblcms1-dev
libmng-dev libpng12-dev libqt3-headers libqt3c102 libsm-dev libstdc++5-dev
libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev
libxmuu-dev libxp-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxt-dev
libxtrap-dev libxtst-dev libxv-dev pkg-config pm-dev qt3-dev-tools
render-dev x-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibs-dev xlibs-pic
xlibs-static-dev xlibs-static-pic zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
gcc-3.2-doc libqt3-i18n qt3-doc libqt3c102-psql libqt3c102-mysql
libqt3c102-odbc libstdc++5-doc stl-manual libgnome-dev xspecs
Recommended packages:
libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-mt-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-3.2 g++-3.2 gcc-3.2 gcc-3.2-base libaudio-dev libexpat1-dev
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libice-dev libjpeg62-dev liblcms1-dev
libmng-dev libpng12-dev libqt3-dev libqt3-headers libqt3c102 libsm-dev
libstdc++5-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev
libxmu-dev libxmuu-dev libxp-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev
libxt-dev libxtrap-dev libxtst-dev libxv-dev pkg-config pm-dev qt3-dev-tools
render-dev x-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibs-dev xlibs-pic
xlibs-static-dev xlibs-static-pic zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.2MB of archives.
After unpacking 59.0MB of additional disk space will be used.


DID IT, also needed g++ : a small one here
i8250d:/usr/src/linux# apt-get install g++
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
g++-3.3 libstdc++5-3.3-dev
Suggested packages:
gcc-3.3-doc libstdc++5-3.3-doc stl-manual
The following NEW packages will be installed:
g++ g++-3.3 libstdc++5-3.3-dev
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 2549kB of archives.
After unpacking 8413kB of additional disk space will be used.

It worked!

Looks different than that of Knoppix3.3's implementation but oh well.

Thanx!!!!!!
Will hold off on my mirrored debian install (keep a pristine install and one that is for testing incase i make big booboo as im in SID/unstable and am newbie!

have seen other posts (have been looking all day, ALL) regarding the bug in kde3.2's menu system. Wont worry just yet. Maybe it'll be fixed in a while. Dont have very many more packages to add just yet.


However if there is a conclusive fix, please let me know without having to downgrade a part of the installation or kde3.2 to good ole 3.1.5.

Thanx Again. However I am concerned.

The first time i run xconfig it takes a while, then everythings ok. So I decided to check messages, and here's what I got:

i8250d:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf
scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
#
# using defaults found in .config
#
Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/kthemestyle.so:
Plugin uses multi threaded Qt library!
Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/highcolor.so:
Plugin uses multi threaded Qt library!
Conflict in /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/light.so:
Plugin uses multi threaded Qt library!
i8250d:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
optimize && ?
#
# using defaults found in .config
#


Any suggestions or are these relatively conflicts benign and wont cause harm?

Anyway I am interested in resolving these conflicts.

Thanking in advance again.

after a reboot, errors gone...like windows in that regard

thanx again