Re: Ubuntu Gusty Install Problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

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.