Heya, > ok i have continued to make progress with installing packages though > unfortunately seem to still need a couple that are not part of my distro > (aclocal, automake and makeinfo) (or at least not in yast) and my > libwnck is too old. I have got to the stage of much "better" errors on > running ./configure. > > checking for poptStrippedArgv in -lpopt... no > configure: error: popt is needed to build
I'd be *hugely* surprised if automake, autoconf and libtool aren't part of the standard set of packages available to you. popt-devel should also be available on any standard SuSE distribution [1] Glynn [1] Which is what I'm currently using with JDS