Hello ppl i am new to this forum.... i installed mandriva today and everything went fine installed all kde and when i got to ./configure for most programs it gives me an error that no kde headers are installed can someone plz tell me where to get these headers cuz i have looked but i just ran into crap ....

Hi,

First is it KDE that you want to install using ./ or is it already installed and you want to add
extra programs and that gives you this error ?

Second : you don't need to use this procedure if you want to install simple stuff, only if there
is no rpm available for a program. rpm is the kind of 'packed' programs Mandriva uses.
In your install there must be MCC (Mandriva control center) and an icon to click to install
software.

Third : if you want extra software, go to this site : http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
and just follow the instructions. You must install contrib, updates, plf free plf non-free,
the latter two giving you software to be able to play wmv, avi and all sort of codecs, with
a package called w32codecs.

Try also to have a look on this site at the Tutorials--> Applications, GUI---> compiling from source.

Hope that helps

cheers

kde is already installed im trying to install a couple differnt things and it gives me this error with the older mandrake 10 i never got this.... and btw thanks for the link.. can someone plz help

Read my posts in this thread.

thank you very much =)

Okay so i go to complie superkaramba and i didnt get the kde error this time i got

Superkaramba can't be compiled
because of missing Python libraries/headers.

can you tell me the command on urpmi to get it plz? =(

If you get any errors regarding libraries/headers, then you have to install the development (devel) packages of the application/s listed as missing in you error message. In this case you need to install python-devel (libpython2.4-devel) package.

Go Here:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...mit=Search+...

Get this:
libpython2.4-devel-2.4-5mdk.i586.rpm

Root Terminal:
# rpm -i libpython2.4-devel-2.4-5mdk.i586.rpm

KC

thanks reddazz that was easy i love urpmi lol

Why not just use urpmi? It will automatically resolve any dependencies, whereas if you do a manual installation, you have to resolve those dependencies yourself and this leads to the so called "dependency hell".

your exactly right reddazz, urmpi is a lot easier... I thought he was having trouble getting that through urpmi...

KC