Hello gurus! I downloaded a game and got an error while using ./configure which is: SDL_image library needed for FreedroidRPG!, so I went to the SDL website and got the SDL_image library rpm file and tried to install and it said that it was already installed. I checked the /usr/lib and /usr/local and even the ld.so.conf and everything seemed fine. I don't know what the problem is. Every other games installed fine, only this one game refused to do anything. Are there adjustments I need to make? Please help me solve this problem. Thanks.

-bhert

Make sure you have the development version of the library. By the way, SuSE carries SDL_image and the development version SDL_image-devel as part of the regular repositores. I suggest you install it via YaST rather than downloading RPMs from websites - it's a lot easier, and they will make sure that the version is compatibile with related libraries. This is general advice - check your distro's packahe system first.

If there are other dependencies needed for compiling the program, look for -devel packages using YaST first, and only if you can't find them, go to project websites.

Thanks matthew , that helped.