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.
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