Can't find X includes - xorg-devels will not install!

neester · 06-05-2006, 09:24 AM

Hey All,

I know this has probably come up 1,000,000 times.
When I searched for this problem - there wern't any threads similar to this one...

I can't install anything - everytime I run:
% ./configure

The script dies with:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

Now I know that requires xorg-x11-devel.
However - when I try to install xorg-x11-devel it says it requires xorg-x11-libs.
I have xorg-x11-libs installed and up to date...

So right now I am stuck.
Any options?
Tips?

Thanks!

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 09:30 AM

What Linux distro are you using?

neester · 06-05-2006, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

What Linux distro are you using?

Ahh sorry mate.
Totally forgot that info:

% uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 #1 Sat May 20 19:59:40 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

ie.
Fedora Core 4

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 09:46 AM

You need to install xorg-x11-devel using yum.

neester · 06-05-2006, 09:56 AM

Thanks for the helping out - this has been bugging me for a week!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

You need to install xorg-x11-devel using yum.

Sorry typo in my thread.
Yeah I tried...
Doens't work.

Here is the message I get from YUM:

Quote:

Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1_5.rhfc4.at is needed by package xorg-x11-devel

However I have pretty much the exact thing installed already...

Quote:

xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2_4.rh installed
Matched from:
xorg-x11-libs

Note the underlined difference...
Would that make a difference?
If not - why can't I install xorg-x11-devel?

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 10:00 AM

Thats your problem right there. AT RPMS replaces essential systems packages (other distros do not replace xorg and other system packages). I would disable AT RPMS and use the packages from the main FC repos.

neester · 06-05-2006, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

Thats your problem right there. AT RPMS replaces essential systems packages (other distros do not replace xorg and other system packages). I would disable AT RPMS and use the packages from the main FC repos.

Ahh ok...
How do I disable AT RPMS packages?
Remove that entry from the YUM repository...

Even then - how do I fix up my xorg-x11-libs...
If I try and remove the libs file - it wants to remove all dependant software (all 400Mb worth)...

Thanks for the help mate!
No one else has picked that up!
:S

This is one part of linux that I am still learning

neester · 06-05-2006, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

Thats your problem right there. AT RPMS replaces essential systems packages (other distros do not replace xorg and other system packages). I would disable AT RPMS and use the packages from the main FC repos.

By the way - when this is all sorted I will donate to your cause

I checked out the site in your sig.
Very noble - I was going to ask if you had an amazon wish list or anything...

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 11:27 AM

How did you setup the atrpms repo? If you used an rpm, then uninstall it or if you did it manually, edit /etc/yum.conf and change the part that says enable=1 to enabled=0 in the atrpms section. If atrpms is not listed in /etc/yum.conf, check for an entry in /etc/yum.repos.d.

After disabling the atrpms repo, you can uninstall all xorg rpms by dropping to a console (CTRL-ALT-F1), login as root and do

Code:

#for i in `rpm -qa | grep -i xorg`; do rpm -e --nodeps "$i";done

To install the Fedora Core xorg packages do

Code:

#yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-drivers

Post back if you have any problems.

neester · 06-05-2006, 05:46 PM

Hey Reddazz,

Thanks for the help!

Disabled ATRPMs.
Not sure why I enabled them to begin with...

Running the first bit of code now...

I am seeing this:

Quote:

/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale: error while loading shared libraries: libfontenc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
error: %postun(fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.2-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
warning: /etc/X11/fs/config saved as /etc/X11/fs/config.rpmsave
warning: /etc/security/console.apps/xserver saved as /etc/security/console.apps/xserver.rpmsave

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 06:15 PM

It seems like one of the uninstall scripts is failing. Try the following,

Code:

#for i in `rpm -qa | grep -i xorg`; do rpm -e --nodeps --noscripts "$i";done

neester · 06-05-2006, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

It seems like one of the uninstall scripts is failing. Try the following,

Code:

#for i in `rpm -qa | grep -i xorg`; do rpm -e --nodeps --noscripts "$i";done

I ran that, then ran this...

% yum install xorg*

All packages installed fine...
However

I now get this when running ./configure

Quote:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

I am going to look up this error - probably something else...

BTW - the X works now

Thanks mate!

Quote:

checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include

neester · 06-05-2006, 07:47 PM

I did this:

% yum install qt-*

but I still get the version error...
:S

What can I install to upgrade the version?

reddazz · 06-05-2006, 08:08 PM

The right package to install is qt-devel. If you had upgraded qt using the atrpms repo, uninstall it and reinstall the fc version. By using wildcards with YUM you end up installing a lot of unnecessary packages so maybe its a good idea to just install the ones needed on your system.

neester · 06-05-2006, 08:18 PM

How can i remove QT without effecting the other programs.
I do:

% yum remove qt*

Quote:

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
qt i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 8.6 M
qt i386 1:3.3.4-15.4 installed 8.7 M
qt-MySQL i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 47 k
qt-ODBC i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 104 k
qt-PostgreSQL i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 71 k
qt-config i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 224 k
qt-designer i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 4.7 M
qt-devel i386 1:3.3.4-15.5 installed 41 M
Removing for dependencies:
SDL_mixer i386 1.2.6-3.fc4 installed 194 k
amarok i386 1.3.9-1.fc4 installed 17 M
arts i386 8:1.5.2-0.1.fc4 installed 4.3 M
arts i386 8:1.5.1-0.1.fc4 installed 4.3 M
camstream i386 0.26.3-8 installed 2.9 M
gl-117 i386 1.3.2-2.fc4.rf installed 5.8 M
gnome-applets i386 1:2.10.1-9 installed 28 M
gnome-media i386 2.10.2-4 installed 5.0 M
gnome-session i386 2.10.0-2 installed 1.2 M
gnome-volume-manager i386 1.3.1-1 installed 737 k
gstreamer-plugins i386 0.8.8-9 installed 3.6 M
gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio i386 0.8.8-2.2.fc4 installed 157 k
k3b i386 0.12.14-0.FC4.1 installed 21 M
kdeartwork i386 3.5.2-0.1.fc4 installed 8.6 M
kdebase i386 6:3.5.1-0.3.fc4 installed 52 M
kdebase i386 6:3.5.2-0.1.fc4 installed 52 M
kdelibs i386 6:3.5.2-0.1.fc4 installed 44 M
kdelibs i386 6:3.5.1-0.1.fc4 installed 44 M
kdemultimedia i386 6:3.5.2-0.1.fc4 installed 18 M
kdepim i386 6:3.5.2-0.2.fc4 installed 48 M
kdocker i386 1.3-6.fc4 installed 201 k
libao i386 0.8.6-0_2.rhfc4.at installed 54 k
mplayer i386 4:1.0-52_pre7try3.rhfc4.at installed 25 M
oprofile i386 0.8.2-4 installed 5.1 M
rhythmbox i386 0.8.8-2 installed 3.3 M
sound-juicer i386 2.10.1-1 installed 1.1 M
timidity++ i386 2.13.2-1 installed 11 M
totem i386 1.0.4-1 installed 3.1 M
videolan-client i386 0.8.4a-2.2.fc4.rf installed 15 M
vorbis-tools i386 1:1.0.1-6 installed 497 k
xine i386 0.99.4-5.fc4.rf installed 3.5 M
xine-lib i386 1.1.1-2.fc4.rf installed 9.1 M