Hi, I recently installed SuSE Linux (9.2) on my computer as the first Linux I have ever used. This has all worked very well, but I am finding that installing software requires so many dependencies that I haven't been able to run any new programs on it yet. My current problem is in trying to install gtk+-2.6.7. When I try ./configure, I get the following error:

configure: error: Xft version 2 is required for x11 target

So I have downloaded libXft-2.6.7. But when I try ./configue, I get:

configure: error: Xrender.h not found.

So after hunting around various forums, I decide that there is a problem with my X11 installation - probably that it has none of the development librares installed. I have downloaded X11R6.8.2-src and have tried to do a "make World" on it. This takes a long time and has required a few dependencies which I have installed. But now I am completely stumped. I get the following error about 30 minutes through the "make":

gcc -m32 -o resize -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L../../exports/lib resize.o xstrings.o -lncurses -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [resize] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/david/Downloads/Utilities/xc/programs/xterm'

Does anyone have any idea what I can do to resolve this problem?

Thanks

If you're using SuSE which is an RPM based distro, you should be upgrading software using rpm and not from source. You might find that so many packages are a little dated that you'll need lots of dependencies just to upgrade one major package (like gtk2). Use proper SuSE RPMS instead.

Thanks, after looking around, I found that within YAST I could link to ftp.suse.com, and then into the pub/suse/i386/9.2 folder and this brings up the list of rpms that I need. This is probably obvious to everyone except me!

Regards