Compiling fails -- KDE libraries not found

[Clay Weber]

> On Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:39:36 PM Richard S. Crawford wrote:
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> Because I *hate* Amarok2 and its inability to sync playlists across devices, 
and Clementine doesn't seem to talk well to my MTP device, I'm trying to 
install Amarok 1.4 on my Pangolin box.
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> I've been following the instructions I found here: 
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> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1559002&page=3
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> but when I try to configure the file I get the following error: 
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> in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will fail.
> So, check this please and use another prefix!
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> Anyone have any ideas on how I can approach this? 
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> 
Have you tried running configure  with "--prefix=/usr"
Actually the real problem is that you may not have installed all the required 
kde3 libs and dev packages, which no longer exist in recent versions.

Not knowing which part of this thread you followed makes it hard as parts of 
it are old and likely outdated.

clay