i've been trying to compile Kmud but evertime i do the ./configure it has a probelm with the Qt libraries. i have them, their up to date, i ldconfig it but it still doesnt find them. i even added the --with-qt-libraries= with the proper directory yet still nothing. any ideas? i've tried the binary version but i screws up even before it loads.

You will need the Qt headers installed as well as the libraries to compile software against Qt.

You'll probably have a qt-headers, qt-devel or qt-source package on the distro's install disk. If not, go to http://www.troll.no and download/install the Qt from source.

yeah i went there, downloaded, compiled and installed all of it just to make shure. too a dang long time to compile. but still nothing.

Try , or wherever you put the qt source.

Telling it where the Qt libraries are (with --with-qt-libraries rather than --with-qt) won't help unless they're in different locations.

What's the error message produced by ./configure?

did that too. same error:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= 1.42 and < 2.0) (libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

i just today install Slackware 10 and installed EVERYTHING. but still the same error. i even download the version of the Qt libraries they had linked on their website. i looked inside the configure script and found that it checks for includes first so i know IT knows their there, but it just wont see the libraries. all the different Qt libraries are under /usr/lib/ and my /etc/ld.so.conf has all of them listed. so back to the drawing board.

The error message says that it's looking for Qt version 1 libraries. You'll probably have version 2 or 3 installed if your distribution is even remotely recent. You may need to download and install an older version of Qt.

after banging my head into the wall for not realizing this i'd like to thank you for you help.