Applications Requiring X-Windows X11 GUI's

Hello

If you need to compile software under KDE then you must install KDE headers. kdelibs4-dev is a package you need in order to do that.

Rainer

I am guessing that you have found yourself left at the command line and have no GUI, if this is not the case I don't really understand the question.
The common reasons for having no GUI are a bad cd burn or older graphics stuff, perhaps you could let us know what the situation is and also your machine specs.

Thank you foxmulder and T Case for your comments. I guess that I did not give enough information. I am interested in running software under Mepis that downloads stock information from the web and plots stock charts using this data. I have not found much available that runs under linux, which probably means I am not looking in the right places. I have found three packages identified as "Financial Software". These are 1. BB Stock Pro and BB Stock Tool which has been available since April of 1995. These are commercial packages which run under Linux 2.0 ELF. Unfortunately, the developer has gone out of business and the software is no longer available.
Originally it came from www.falkor.com.
2.Market Analysis System: (MAS) Linux version
This is mentioned at sourceforge.net I don't have it and I don't know if it would run under Mepis.
3.)Merchant of Venice version 0.4a (www.tucows.com)
This is a GPL Licensed program. To run it X11 must be downloaded
from tucows. It is supposedly available on CD and is dated Aug 13 2004
I don't have any of these nor do I know what it would take to run them under Mepis 3.4.3 .
Does anyone have experience along these lines?
Thanks

I may be wrong, but I thought that Mepis in run level 5 was "X", which is ran by the window manager KDE. In other words, X is already there. Is that right Rainer?

Travis

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Maybe one day I'll be able to help if I ask enough questions.

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# Linux howto's for newbies from a newbie

Hello Travis

I assume you are referring to my answer to World in this topic.
headers are used in c and c++ programming lanquage, they are used to store function prototypes and structure declarations, i believe KDE is written by c++ so there are class declarations also.
"Real" code is stored in different file. So if you have an application
which needs objects which are located in different files you need to include these headers in your sourcecode file in order to compile it
successfully.
In other words compiler can link your source code files together to produce executable code. Packages from repositories are precompiled headers included.
KDE headers are not always included when you install mepis and you cannot compile programs which will have a graphical interface, they just need headers to include in theyr code.
Configure script are used to find and include these headers to source code.

Might be some real programmer can make things more clear

Of course KDE is there when you install mepis. I just thought World
needs to compile some graphical application from sourcecode.

Was this the answer you needed ?

Rainer