Re: Ubuntu Gusty Install Problem

[Daniel J Farrell]

Hello,

It seems that my original reply didn't make it to the board (inbox was  
too full!).

Your right, libxt-dev was the missing link!

Thanks,

Dan.


On 4 Mar 2008, at 10:40, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2008, at 10:01, Daniel J Farrell wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am installing with gnustep-startup-0.19.2.
> >
> > I have installed all the dependancies required on Ubuntu. Roughly  
> > following the list quoted here, (http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2005/12/gnustep-on-ubuntuppc.html 
> > ). But I would apt-get the required packages  according to the  
> > messages printed from gnustep-startup. For example, Ubutnu Gusty  
> > doesn't come with the X11 headers and/or libraries. So I installed  
> > every x11 packages I could find (a little overkill I know :o) )
> >
> > Now,
> >
> > *** checking system for installation issues ***
> >
> > phase passes the check for the X headers and libraries  
> > successfully, but when it comes to the
> >
> > *** build GNUstep Back ***
> >
> > phase, it halts with,
> >
> > configure: error: No X11 libraries/headers for building x11 server
> >
> > Any ideas on how to clear this up?
>
> I had the same error trying to install on a new Debian system at  
> FOSDEM.
>
> On Debian the packages are quire fine-grained, so you need to  
> install a lot of them to get functionality that tends to be grouped  
> together in a single package on many other systems.  In particular,  
> it's easy to find you've missed out one of the X developer packages.
>
> At FOSDEM it turned out to be that the libxt-dev package needed to  
> be installed ... so you could try checking that.