Guest dhoodle Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Hi Guys I am brand new to Mandriva, and also fairly new to Linux. I had a dabble with ubuntu for about a year on my laptop, but after I had installed it, and easily installed what programs I needed - did not do anything on it that stimulated the brain. But with Mandriva - I am having a nightmare :) I have found that Linux is very hard to get used to. I managed to install the Citrix Client so I can connect to my work applications which I will take as a mini victory :) So this is the problem I am having. I want to install a Dock, like the macs have. I have found KsmoothDock, and will like to install it. But I run into this issue. Here are the install notes. TO INSTALL: Unzip, cd to the directory ksmoothdock then run: ./configure make su make install Then run: ksmoothdock (if when you run "ksmoothdock", nothing happens, then it is likely that your KDE dir is not standard. In this case, either: - cd to the directory ksmoothdock/src, then run "./ksmoothdock", or - Re-do the above sequence (./configure ...), but instead of "./configure", type: ./configure --prefix=/YOUR_KDE_DIR ) I extract the tar and cd into the directory. When I run ./configure from Konsole I receive this error: checking for kde-config... not found configure: error: The important program kde-config was not found! Please check whether you installed KDE correctly. I am not too sure how to resolve this, or what it really means... Could anyone shed any light ? Thanks in advance dhoodle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 You should install KsmoothDock from the repositories instead of from the tar file. Which Mandriva are you running? In my Mandriva 2008.1, using the GUI: Tools System Tools Configure Your Computer Install and Remove Software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dhoodle Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Thanks - I didnt even think of that!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 90% of the time the packages will be available in the Mandriva repos provided they have all been added, including plf-free and plf-nonfree. I've practically never had to compile anything on Mandriva, or most other distros, but from time to time with something specialistic I've had to. Once you know about easyurpmi to add the repos and searching for the packages this will become second nature and the thing you will always do before resorting to compiling from source :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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