I've had this problem with a bunch of kde themes I've tried to install and now with kpumpe, a glucometer program that I need to get working.

I run the configure script and it says:

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0.1) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

so I tried apt-getting all the relevent-looking qt packages, and it still gives me the same error. I'm running warty warthog, is there some trick I'm missing here?

You need the qt development packages. They should be named something like qt-devel or libqt-devel.

no good, no such package, I have libqt3-dev installed, but dosn't work.

heres the packages I get from an apt-cache search:
root@h4xorb0xor:/home/ian/kpumpe-0.4 # apt-cache search libqt
libqthreads-12 - QuickThreads library for Guile
libqt-perl - Perl bindings for the Qt library
libqt3-compat-headers - Qt 1.x and 2.x compatibility includes
libqt3-dev - Qt development files
libqt3-headers - Qt3 header files
libqt3-mt-dev - Qt development files (Threaded)
libqt3c102 - Qt Library
libqt3c102-mt - Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime version)
libqt3c102-mt-mysql - MySQL database driver for Qt3 (Threaded)
libqt3c102-mt-psql - PostgreSQL database driver for Qt3 (Threaded)
libguile-dev - Development headers and static library for libguile
libqt3-i18n - i18n files for Qt3 library
libqt3-java - Java bindings for Qt
libqt3-jni - Java bindings for Qt ( Native libraries )
libqt3c102-mt-odbc - ODBC database driver for Qt3 (Threaded)
libqt3c102-mysql - MySQL database driver for Qt3
libqt3c102-odbc - ODBC database driver for Qt3
libqt3c102-psql - PostgreSQL database driver for Qt3
libqtc1 - Qt bindings for C
libqte-mt3 - Qt/Embedded GUI Library (runtime threaded version)
libqte-mt3-dev - Qt/Embedded GUI (Threaded Version) development files
libqte2 - Qt/Embedded GUI Library (runtime version)
libqte2-dev - Qt/Embedded GUI development headers
qt3-assistant - The Qt3 assistant application
root@h4xorb0xor:/home/ian/kpumpe-0.4 #

I've got most of them installed, except on of them that had a conflict. Which ones do I actualy need?

What version of Debian are you using coz if its woody, it may not have the latest version of the required qt package.

Actualy, I'm running ubuntu warty warthog, and just did a dist-upgrade.
if that is the case, where can i get a .deb package of the newer headers and libraries? I get this qt error thing on just about every app I try to compile for kde, themes included.

Does Kubuntu use the same repositories as Ubuntu. Maybe your ought to try the Kubuntu version of QT.

I'm not running kubuntu, I'm running ubuntu warty wart hog and installed kde myself. and what is qt? that would probably help me figure this out

The reason why I asked if Kubuntu (Ubuntu +KDE) used the same repositories was because you'd be able to get a latest version of qt from the Kubuntu side of things since they concentrate a lot more on KDE than GNOME. QT is the GUI toolkit that is used to develop KDE programs.

hi frnd just install it AVAHI-Q3-DEVEL

hi frnd just install it AVAHI-Q3-DEVEL

he,upstairs,i still do not know what package need me to install.....

i tried avahi-q3-devel

but could not find this package....

any ideas?

For Qt 3.x install the following packages:
libqt3-mt-dev ibqt3-headers libqt3-compat-headers qt3-dev-tools qt3-apps-dev

yes,it worked.that you so much!