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I've tried to build several applications from source and all except for one haven't compiled. I think I figured out why. All the applications that I have trying to compile have required either gnome or kde libraries. For instance I tried to install a program called apollon and it told that ... checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
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Now for the real question. Why would the libraries be in a different than specified location and where might they be? Thanks in advance!
Okay. Well I tried that can found:
--with-qt-dir
--with-qt-includes
--with-qt-libraries
I'm not quite sure what the includes are but I set dir to ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt/ that failed so I tried ./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt/lib. But to no avail. Let me tell you. You can be an advocate of installing from source all you like but for a newb like me sucks! But thanks guys , and I tried looking for an rpm but still no.
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