Hi everybody, I want to install LabPlot 1.6.0.3 on Open Suse 12.2 (i586) from the Sorce Code of the program, I started used the .configure comand, but I get the following error:
dev@dhcppc0:~/bin/Build/LabPlot-1.6.0.3> configure
configure: loading site script /usr/share/site/i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type… i686-suse-linux
checking host system type… i686-suse-linux
checking target system type… i686-suse-linux
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install… yes
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for kde-config… not found
**configure: error: The important program kde-config was not found!
Please check whether you installed KDE correctly.
**
I don’t know why it happens and how to fix it…
Any help will be very useful : ). very thanks.
kde-config is a KDE3 file; unless you have installed any KDE3 programs, it won’t be on your system. It is possible that installing a KDE3 program will solve your problem but the way openSUSE handles KDE3 is non-standard because it allows KDE3 and KDE4 to coexist.
Can you edit the script to point to kde4-config? That may work - no guarantees, though.
In fact, you don’t need to do any of this anyway. If you go to http://software.opensuse.org/package/kde3-labplot, you will find that the KDE3 version of labplot that you want has already been packaged for you.