Koffice

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:10 +0530
VIGNESH <vignesh1986 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 7/11/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:16:58 +0530
> > VIGNESH <vignesh1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > checking crt_externs.h presence... no
> > > checking for crt_externs.h... no
> > > checking for _NSGetEnviron... no
> > > checking for vsnprintf... yes
> > > checking for snprintf... yes
> > > checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please
> > > check your installation and add the correct
> > > paths!vignesh at Konqui:~/koffice-1.5.1$
> >
> > you need the X development libraries. The package "xlibs-dev" would pull
> > in most of the libraries required - but then you will start seeing other
> > missing -dev libraries as well - probably Qt related for instance, since
> > this is a KDE app using Qt . In other words, your troubles are just
> > beginning ;-)
> >
> > If you really *must* have 1.5.1, then I suggest that before you compile it
> > you run:
> >
> > sudo apt-get build-dep koffice
> >
> > This will grab most or all of the developmant packages required to compile
> > it.
> >
> > If you don't need the 1.5.1 version, koffice 1.5.0 is available as an
> > Ubuntu package in synaptic or using apt/aptitude
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy koffice
> > koffice:
> >   Installed: (none)
> >   Candidate: 1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9
> >   Version table:
> >      1:1.5.0-0ubuntu9 0
> >         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
> >
> > It's in "main" so you shouldn't have any trouble installing it, assuming
> > you have a reasonably good internet connection.

[Vignesh: your top post pasted below :-(  ]

> Ya.. Now I get the following error...
> 
> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers
> and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
> For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
>
 
Vignesh,, *sigh*....

1) <rant> PLEASE, PLEASE  _don't_  top post - I had to cut/paste your text
so that this would make some kind of sense. Putting answers in front of
questions just creates confusion and extra work ... </rant>

2) Did you run the commands I suggested ? That is

sudo apt-get build-dep koffice                   ?

3) Do you have a decent internet connection? If so, why not just use the
koffice package that is already available, as I pointed out  (see my
original answer above)

4) If you don't use "sudo apt-get build-dep" you are going to have a
rather long process sorting this out, with much searching and downloading,
and trial and error, unless you google for the required development
sources you need to compile koffice  - even then, you would probably have
to compile a whole bunch of them *before* you even get started compiling
koffice itself.

5) If this came on a CD, does the CD also have the development libraries
and dependencies on it? ( Linux Format for example often does this by
including them in the "essentials" directory on their CDs )

6) To be honest - why bother? What is wrong with the Ubuntu version of
koffice?

Peter