I've been working on getting my Logitech MX500 to work properly in Linux. I've been going by a guide that told me to uninstall imwheel 0.9.5 in favor of 1.0.0pre11 I've downloaded imwheel 1.0.0pre11.tar.gz and extracted it into /root/tmp/imwheel-1.0.0pre11/. In the terminal, I cd into the directory, type ./configure and get the following:

linux:~/tmp/imwheel-1.0.0pre11 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking getopt.h usability... yes
checking getopt.h presence... yes
checking for getopt.h... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for regcomp... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for getopt_long_only... yes
checking that regex functions are available... yes
checking where the pid file goes... /tmp
checking if we suid imwheel at install... no
checking if we use the included getopts... no
checking if we build mdetect... no
checking if we build mdump... no
checking if we build extras... no
checking for gpm-1.19.3/gpm.c... no
checking if we build gpm-imwheel... no
checking for X... no
checking if we want to check for XFree86... yes
checking for X... X
checking if X is XFree86... yes
checking for XCreateWindow in -lX11... no
configure: error: IMWheel depends on the X11 libraries!
linux:~/tmp/imwheel-1.0.0pre11 #

So far, I can't get any further than this. I've browsed through YaST to see if I forgot to install anything that looks like an X11 library, but I'm not sure what to look for. In YaST, everything under >Package Groups>System>Libraries is installed. I don't know where to go from here. I would greatly appreciate some help.

-Jon

You need the X developement libraries which in Debian is a pseudo package which provides a bunch of different libs those are what you should be searching for the package names in Debian below perhaps the file names are similar in SuSE.

BTW you should not be compiling as root you can use the ./configure and make as normal user then when you go to install use su -c 'make install' and type in the root password then the files will be installed.

In YaST I've installed every package in >Package Groups>Development and in >Package Groups>Libraries. I also looked at an alphabetical listing of packages and I've installed everything that looks similar to those at all. I also did a search and I've installed everything with either "lib" or "dev" in the name or summary. Do you know of any other place where I could search for these packages for SuSE?

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

-Jon

Not really I have never used SuSE so I have no clue where to look. It seems like your looking in the right place with the developement in the package groups though. Is there nothing in there for X developement at all? I think you may want to start a new thread on installing the X developement libs I was going to suggest in the SuSE forum here but checked and apparently there is none.

OK I found it!!! Go into YaST and then the "Install and remove programs" module. Use the search option, type in "dev" and near the bottom there should be an "XFree86-devel" package. Install it. Then you can go on to the rest of the imwheel installation. Anything else I find I'll post here.

To make sure other ppl looking for help on this find this thread:
SuSE 9.1 imwheel x11 dev

STuPiDiCuS

hi,

thats helpful, but for Suse 9.1 Personal users:
go to: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/
and download the following packages:
Freetype2-Devel
Fontconfig-devel
XFree86-devel
(in that order)

the personal edition seems to need a lot of extra downloads. I installed it yesterday without too much trouble, but to be able to compile i had to spend a day on the internet heh. it's not easy being a newbie!

Lennard

hmm

I seem to not have the 'make' command available:

50-240:/home/lpamooij/Documents/az/imwheel-1.0.0pre12 # make
bash: make: command not found
50-240:/home/lpamooij/Documents/az/imwheel-1.0.0pre12 # ./make
bash: ./make: Onbekend bestand of map

50-240:/home/lpamooij/Documents/az/imwheel-1.0.0pre12 # find / -name make
find: /media/dvd: Geen medium gevonden
find: . changed during execution of find

I'm on suse 9.1 personal and i sort of need this to be able to install non-binary programs. I've been installing the required packs to configure for a few hours now.

can anyone help?

Lennard

have you tried "whereis make"?

I found it, i guess i should have thought of that. The 'make' package wasn't installed. I had to download that too,

thanks though,

Lennard