Location of Kernel Source, Tcl/Tk, and Others

[Bill Marcum]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:38:11 +0900, Dave M G 
  <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
>
> 	1. Situation
> 	I'm trying to make my Wacom tablet be my primary pointing device.
> 	With some help from this list, I'm far enough along to encounter a few
> problems in the configuration, but as they mostly involve required
> applications, I'm hoping they can be resolved with just a few pointers.
> 	The Wacom driver I'm attempting to configure comes from here:
> 	http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net
>
> 	2. Problems
> 	When running the ./configure command that came with the Wacom drivers I
> downloaded from sourceforge, it could not find the kernel, tcl/tk, gcc,
> ncurses, or an SDK for xorg.
> 	Gcc I was able to get with apt-get.
> 	In the case of the kernel, it actually reported that I had kernel
> version 2.4. But I was certain that Ubuntu uses 2.6, so I took this to
> mean that the kernel was not found, and it defaulted to 2.4. The
> sourceforge documentation suggests that the kernel source needed should
> be in /usr/src/linux. But I could not find anything at all in /usr/src.

The 2.6 kernel packages are called linux-source-* and linux-image-*.

> 	In the case of Tcl/Tk, I ran "wish" at the prompt to determine if Tcl
> is installed, and I got a small window on my desktop which I take to
> mean Tcl is installed. I'm assuming that if Tcl is installed, then so is
> Tk. But I could not locate them by running a "which" command.
Try "locate".

> 	I have no idea what ncurses is, but apparently in order to build the
> driver I need ncurses-devel. I could not get this with apt-get.

libncurses5-dev
"apt-cache search" and aptitude are your friends.

> 	I was also unable to get xorg-x11-sdk, which I believe is the name of
> the SDK that this Wacom driver is looking for.
>
I'm not sure but maybe you need libx11-dev.
>