X11

[Erik Schmidt]

I'm very new to Linux and X11, so forgive me if this is a stupid  
question, but what if I'm trying to use Athena?

On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:07 AM, Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:46:39 -0500
> Erik Schmidt <eschmidt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what libraries do I need to install to build X11 applications?
>
> You could start with xlibs-dev  - but it will also depend on  
> whether you
> are building gtk, gtk2 or qt based apps. You will need the developmant
> libraries for those too, in that case.
>
> For example, if you run
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep sylpheed
>
> you will see that it needs libs of the form libgtk*-dev  and so on.
>
> apt-cache search libgtk dev     will show you some more gtk and gtk 
> + libs.
>
> Similar commands would show qt dev libs, and so on
>
> Peter
>
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