Need KDE help

[Kevin Brown]

Aaron Cordova wrote:
> Hello, I'm running mandrake 8.2 and trying to install KDE 3.1
> I used the program konstruct to build it. Of course there was an error, 
> it said it couldn't find -lfontconfig. So I went and got the source to 
> fontconfig and of course it wont compile either. Fontconfig says I'm 
> missing expat.h. So I installed expat via rpm with no problems. I 
> rebooted the system but fontconfig still cant find expat.h and I cant 
> install fontconfig via rpm because it needs to have libfontconfig 
> installed first and when I try to install libfontconfig via rpm it fails 
> because it need fontconfig installed first. Why the hell the packager 
> didnt put them together I dont know and I'm not gonna ask. Has anyone 
> else had this problem and how did you solve it?

In the world of rpms, programs are divided into two different ones. 
fontconfig.x.rpm and fontconfig-devel.x.rpm.  You need the -devel rpms to build 
software and only the non-devel ones to run said software.