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I deleted the old version through the Remove Software program but now I have no idea how to install the new version of Kopete. Can someone give me a totaly newbie step-by-step starting with the tar file "kopete-0.10.1.tar.bz2" please?
Distribution: Slackware 11, Solaris 10, Solaris 9, Sourcemage 0.9.6
Posts: 322
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Hi!
The error you recived there means that ./configure can't find your X installation and thinks that you haven't got a graphical interface on your computer.
I haven't used Mandriva at all, I don't know where your X include files is. You can try:
Code:
locate include | more
This will produce a lot of output, try to look for X11, X11R6 or so. When you find your include files, write down the path, go to your kopete directory and type:
Code:
./configure --help
Try to look after X include dirs or something similar (you can go up and down by pressing Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown).
Sorry for the deliberately unhelpful post, but Mandrivel(tm) has given me so many problems in the past, I couldn't resist.
The serious question is: have you considered using a Debian based distro like SimplyMEPIS or [K]ubuntu? Then you could use apt-get, Synaptic, or KPackage to fix problems like this.
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