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Old 03-13-2004, 10:13 PM   #1
pHaT tAcO
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xscreensaver 4.15 wont configure


when i do ./configure on xcreensaver 4.15 it seems to to think i dont have X installed. when i try to install a RPM of it, it thinks i dont have xcursor and xrender. why does it think i dont have X?
 
Old 03-13-2004, 10:18 PM   #2
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you probably need the X development header files. usually the package is something like: XFree86-devel-XXXX where XXXX is the version of X.

mandy is an rpm friendly distro also, you could make an 'rpm using rpm --ta xscreen*.gz' but you still need to get the xfree-devel package installed.
 
Old 03-15-2004, 12:04 AM   #3
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yay it worked!
 
  


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