after alittle trouble with correct packages and adding the path, i could finally ./configure xine-ui. but upon trying to "make install" i ran into this problem and was unable to find any help via the net. does anyone have any comments or suggestions? also could this problem be attributed to the version/method i used to install xine-lib?
xine information: xine-lib-1.0.1, xine-ui-0.9.23
linux information: Linux SUSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.151-default
make install error: says the curl_config cant be located

thanks, mike

The best thing to do is download and install Synaptic - which is the front end for apt-get. After that you can just point and click to get any package installed on your computer and it resolves the dependencies too.

Just my two bits.

any chance of a solution not depending on downloading a new application? no offense of course ravee!

heres the full error:
checking for curl-config... no
checking for CURL-LIB version >= 7.10.2... no
*** The curl-config script installed by CURL could not be found
*** If CURL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the CURL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to curl-config.
*** All of curl dependent parts will be disabled ***
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes
checking for aalib-config... /usr/bin/aalib-config
checking for AALIB version >= 1.2.0... no
*** Could not run AALIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means AALIB was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved AALIB since it was installed.
checking for pkg-config... no
*** pkg-config not found. See http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net
*** All of DIRECTFB dependent parts will be disabled
checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no
configure: error: *** libpng is needed (PNG library not found) - try to use --with-png-prefix option ***

Well, you haven't been very specific in what you're trying to do. If you don't need to install from source, I suggest you don't (it's easier not to).
Since you haven't said what distro you're using, I sugest you use whatever package manager your distro uses to install xine and it should install the needed dependancies too. If you use apt-get, then you could use aptitude instead of synaptic, or just:
# apt-get install xine