kdelibs supposedly missing, can't install kbfx

RedShirt · 02-21-2006, 10:21 AM

Background:
Running Vector Linux 5.1.1 SOHO on
IBM Thinkpad T30 with
KDE 3.5.1 from
ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/st...lackware/10.2/

Slackware 10.1 and 10.2 tgzs all install fine on Vector Linux, so before anyone says, wrong packages for KDE, it isn't. Anywho, everything went fine during install, hauled along, rebooted, and everything looks and works great for KDE. Then I decided I wanted to change my kicker/start button, so I got kbfx .48 from source from kde-look.org. But here, it errors out during install:

Code:

checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /opt/kde/include
checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no
configure: error: you need to install kdelibs first.

I tried reinstalling both KDELIBS and KDEVELOP, no change. I am at a loss, I have everything I should need to install this, but it doesn't go. Anyone ran into this and know how to fix it?

foo_bar_foo · 02-21-2006, 12:06 PM

uic is an executable that is part of your Qt installation.
if there is a seperate Qt developement package you need that.
make sure uic is on your PATH
also might help to have
export QTDIR=
in your .bash_profile

also when you install KDE apps always use
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`

RedShirt · 02-21-2006, 12:26 PM

Well, I have uic then:
usr/lib/qt/bin/uic

So, I added "export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt/bin" to my .bash_profile as both root, and my noarmal user. That didn't seem to do it. I tried the long ./configure you suggested, which across many distrobutions(about... oh 14 or so) in KDE i have never needed before, same error.

Now, the PATH... "echo $path" gives blank output. I can't say i have ever used this before anywhere either, so I don't know exactly where I would go about editting the path, nor exactly what to set in there.