Nazty

I am trying to install software on my PC and it has to be be compiled but when I run the
./configure command I receive the following message...

......and I cannot continue with the installation. Does anyone know what can cause this problem and how to solve it? Is there something missing on my system?!

sabin

Awww, I already had that error message, that meant there was one c++ package that I had not installed, and it compiled only after installation of this package...
But which one was it I don't remember >_<
Most probably gcc-c++

I suggest that you check on the website of that software what are the required packages and then install them using urpmi or mandrake control center... and if it's not clear, install gcc-c++

Nazty

I found some .mdk packages in the Software Installer...Do you have any idea which versions and .mdk files I should install....?

sabin

Mandrake Control Center, software installation menu

Don't take no offense, but I don't know how newbie (or not) you might be, so here it comes :
- go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org : that is the Penguin Liberation Front, the greatest Mandrake contrib RPM source. Follow the steps, add the media in root mode in the console (use "su" command to log as root)
- start mandrake control center (KDE start icon > Manage your computer > Configure your system; My menu is in french so it's a guessed translation, you might also just make alt-F2 and enter "mcc"), and go to the source media selection, and unselect all the cdroms and DVDs, just keep PLF, updates and main as selected sources
- now, in the MCC, in the software installation page, enter "c++" as keyword, and in the list, find the entry with also "gcc"... that'll most likely be the one. (You'd better not do the opposite, for gcc you'll most likely get tons and tons of results to sort, unline with c++.) And if there are more than one entry for gcc AND c++, install both

Hope that was the solution from the start anyway, if that's not the package you needed i'll feel bad

Nazty

Right !!! Thank you very much for the detailled instructions! Now I have the compiler on the PC but there is a new problem this is the error message that I receive in the console....
Can you read something in here? For me it is a total nonsense....






This is what I get when I ./configure --with-kde the software that I want to install and then
type in the "make" command....

sabin

*searched for what kind of software kbedict might be*

*found its homepage, http://kbedic.sourceforge.net/ *

*100% of the texts are in cyrillic*

*«ZOMFGWTFBBQ !!!1one!»*

*«ooookay, it's been ten years I didn't use any of the russian I leared during five years, let's try to refresh it...»*

Oh, damn, i'm sorry but from what I found you have all the required dependancies (you have QT3 don't you ? Check if in the MCC, when you ask for a program uninstallation, "QT" is found - if yes, keep it, don't uninstall it !).
You ran ./configure --with-kde as required, and no more should have been needed.

But the "make" program (it compiles the software source code) could not locate the KDE elements, which means the configure step failed.

Maybe (I didn't understand the line about it) kbedic can only work when bgoffice is already installed ? There's something written about bgoffice written, but it was beyond my knoweledge sorry ^^

Nazty

Maybe there's something missing ! Thank you for your help!