Problems with K DVD Author Wizard - Installing Kommander / KDEWebDev
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Hi
I am trying to install either Kommander or KDEWebDev as part of the requirements of the K DVD Author Wizard program. However on running the ./confgure script as root I get the following message:
checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... no
checking for libXext... no
configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed. Since configure
can't find it itself, we stop here assuming that make wouldn't find
them either.
If I try and then run make , it fails as I presume because of the above problem. The werid part of this is that the libXext file does exist in /usr/X11R/lib so I cannot understand why it cannot find it.
Please help
KDE DVD Author Wizard - problems with Kommander/KDEWEBDEV
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i just found that version 6.0 has kommander installed, that kdewebdev is available from ubuntu through the package manager
as is dvdauthor and qdvdauthor
but not kdvdauthor
(and not available in debian reps either)
there is nothing weird about configure not finding libXext
it's looking for it where a rpm system would put it, but a deb system put sit elsewhere.
either you add parameters to configure to tell to check some other places; edit the configure file to send it to the right place or you symlink your file to where the configure script expects to find it.
I suggest you go to sourceforge where kdvdauthor is hosted, sign up to their mailing list and ask your question there.
Thanks for the reply drlizau, what does puzzle me is the line above it looking for libXext where it states the path to were libXext sites but then cannot find it 
.
When you mention version 6.0 I presume you mean Mepis, if that is the case, this is the version that I am using so it is even stranger that the kommander package is missing from it as well.
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mepis version??
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i just found that version 6.0 has kommander installed, that kdewebdev is available from ubuntu through the package manager
as is dvdauthor and qdvdauthor
but not kdvdauthor
(and not available in debian reps either)
there is nothing weird about configure not finding libXext
it's looking for it where a rpm system would put it, but a deb system put sit elsewhere.
either you add parameters to configure to tell to check some other places; edit the configure file to send it to the right place or you symlink your file to where the configure script expects to find it.
I suggest you go to sourceforge where kdvdauthor is hosted, sign up to their mailing list and ask your question there.