Kde Headers

When running ./configure, I get this error.
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

I searched google and I kept seeing the /opt/kde dir for the files. Well, mine is empty. Also, here are all the rpms that have kde in them (rpm -qa *rpm*).
lockdev-devel-1.0.0-23
switchdesk-kde-3.9.8-15
kdegames-3.1-4
kdemultimedia-3.1-4
kdelibs-3.1-13
kdebase-3.1-15
kdeutils-devel-3.1-4
kdeutils-3.1-4
kdeaddons-3.1-4
kdegraphics-3.1-5
lockdev-1.0.0-23
kdeartwork-3.1-3
kdenetwork-3.1-5

I thought the devel rpms contained the headers. Any ideas?

So you have /opt/kde but it is empty?

The only other place I have seen kde installed is /usr/kde, so check there. The headers will be in the 'include' directory of your $KDE_ROOT, which typically is /opt/kde

run 'locate kdeinit' you may see something like:

/usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdeinit

this means that your $KDE_ROOT is '/usr/kde/3.3/' so the headers will be in '/usr/bin/kde/3.3/include'

If locate 'kdeinit' shows nothing then kde is not installed.

Got it. /usr/bin/kdeinit

I tried ./configure --with-extra-libs=/usr/bin/kde , but still got this error: checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

I also tried ./configure --with-extra-includes=/usr/bin/kdeinit ,but this other error: configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log.

I've never delt with PATHS, but isn't there a way to set the path somehow?

Thanks.

No you don't understand, I asked you to look for kdeinit simply to find where kde is installed. Every distro I have used keeps kde separate from the rest of the system, however if kdeinit is in /usr/bin then it would appear that on your system kde is mixed in with everything else.

Check in /usr/bin/include

See if there is perhaps a kde subdirectory in there, or else a lot of files that look like:

... snip ...
krun.h
ksambashare.h
ksavefile.h
ksaver.h
kscan.h
ksconfig.h
kscoredialog.h
kscreensaver.h
kscreensaver_vroot.h
kselect.h
kseparator.h
kserversocket.h
kservice.h
kservicegroup.h
kservicetype.h
... snip...

There are several hundred of them, and almost all of them start with k and end with .h: these are the kde headers. You can try 'locate k*.h' and this should give you an idea where they are...but beware because you will likely get some false positives.

Good luck...

I see in some other posts that you are using ReadHat. Never used that one, but with Fedora Core 2, I had the same problem yesterday. Found out that I needed to install the KDE developers pack from Add/Remove Applications to get the headers.

I'm having some trouble finding these files. I did a search using kde and came up with a bunch of .h files. But none of them are in the /usr/bin/include. The closest find is under /usr/include/kde, but only 4 or 5 files. False find. I also tried installing via the Package Management, but it told me to install some rpms need to be installed first, they are installed.

JustOl'Bob could you see if you do a search for kde rpm (rpm -qa kde*) and see what you come up with?

Thanks for your help, but I found the rpm I was missing. Then I had to uninstall and reinstall some of kde rpms (no idea why). It would find them, but then say they aren't there. But it's all worked out now. Thanks again.

What was the rpm you needed? If you remember.

-- Kid

For anyone having the same " no KDE headers installed " problem on FC2, you guys need to get
kdelibs-devel 6:3.3.0-2.2.2.kde.i386

just:
yum install kdelibs-devel 6:3.3.0-2.2.2.kde.i386

and all is nice and good.

-- kid

I had that problem with SuSE last night. installed kdelibs-devel, everything worked fine.

Hm, sorry if this is hijacking.

I had a similar problem with SuSE 9.0pro. I installed kdelibs3-devel and have some / many / most headers in /opt/kde3/include/*.h but kconfigskeleton.h is missing. Anybody know an alternative package or a source without line numbers (with line numbers is the format on KDE.org )?

Thanks in advance .

on my debian box it was the kdelibs4-dev...yay team

Originally posted by baskew91 on my debian box it was the kdelibs4-dev...

Huh? KDE-four? You seem to be way ahead of us

I certainly have nothing of that ilk

I have been searching for a decent thread like this for ages. I am glad to have found it and hope it is still active!

I have just installed the latest Mandrake 10.1 Community (with KDE). This is the free DVD version. Everything works great except for the headers problem. I get the same error as in the first thread.

checking for KDE includes... no
configure: error: "Couldn't find KDE development headers!"
configure: error: "Configuration in systray failed!"

I followed the instructions above and found this:

/usr/bin/kdeinit (executable file)

I did locate / kdeinit and found squat and that's after 'updatedb'

I opened up the package management gui as su and looked for the package kdelib-devel and kde-lib to no avail. That tells me it is already installed right? Ok, so I went into 'Remove Packages' typed in kdelib-devel and lib and kde to try to find what was already installed and found kdelibs-common-3.2.3-74mdk only!

I'm confused because I have the executable kdeinit in /usr/bin/ and my package manager doesn't see it (if indeed this is the right file). Also I cannot find kdelibs-devel 6:3.3.0-2.2.2.kde.i386 (or newer) anywhere on my discs or Google.

Major header problem! I'm only trying to compile a tiny piece of software (500k) and really struggling. I wondered whether the free version of Mandrake didn't have all of the devel files but that doesn't explain why I can't find anything on Google? I have even failed to locate a .torrent. Either I'm completely misinformed or I'm missing something so painfully obvious I should get a cat-scan. Any tips would be wonderful. Failing that anyone3 fancy compiling code for Mandrake?

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...mit=Search+...

Try to grab a version that matches your kde install.