On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Vern Southern wrote:
> Hell to all...
>
> It has been quite a while since I have tried to
> compile a program (1995), and the compiler I used was
> QuickBASIC 4.5, so please understand when I ask all
> the wrong questions.
You are doing pretty well. Don't worry.
> I have installed Mandrake 8.0, KDE version 2.1.1,
> Release 2.4.3-20mdk on my computer. (My First Linux
> Install)
Sounds like you have installed the KDE "runtime".
> I have been trying to learn how to compile using a
> linux system. I downloaded two games that I have
> played before, KPOKER from
> http://kpoker.sourceforge.net/ and KROGUE from
> http://ksi.ii.uj.edu.pl/krogue/. Of course is was the
> DOS versions of these games that I use to play.
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm\
/Caldera/eDesktop24/RPMS/kdegames/kpoker-2.1.1-1.i386.html
is precompiled. Didn't see a precompiled version of krogue.
> I had several error messages come up during
> compilation and realized that some of the packages
> needed were not installed by default during the
> Mandrake setup so I install every package that looked
> relevant.
Somehow I think you missed installing the KDE "development"
packages?
> Judging by the error message I got from KPOKER I must
> need to install some others. It seems that KROGUE
> needs me to let it know what PATH to follow to find
> (Headers). I'm not sure what path it needs.
Ordinarily, when you install the development packages, they should
fix these things. About the only problem you may encounter is needing to
re-login to get a shell that sees these changes.
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