Jorge Almeida schreef: > I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: > > checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not > found ***
I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're missing a package, but that package is not a direct dependency of kde-meta, or it would have been installed). Here's what I found: Programs That Depend On imlib app-i18n/chinput app-i18n/minichinput app-misc/dfm app-misc/endeavour dev-lang/entity dev-python/gnome-python dev-python/pygtk games-board/eboard games-kids/lletters games-kids/stickers gnome-base/gnome-libs ==> kde-base/kuickshow mail-client/balsa media-gfx/frontline media-gfx/gphoto media-gfx/qiv media-gfx/scigraphica media-gfx/xzgv media-libs/fnlib media-sound/yconsole media-video/camserv net-analyzer/cheops-ng net-im/gnophone net-irc/bitchx www-client/amaya x11-misc/bbacpi x11-misc/idesk x11-misc/pogo x11-misc/xteddy x11-plugins/epplets x11-plugins/gkrellm-alltraxclock x11-plugins/gkrellm-bfm x11-plugins/gkrellm-console x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio x11-plugins/gkrellmoon x11-plugins/gkrellmouse x11-plugins/gkrellsun x11-terms/mlterm x11-themes/gtk-engines x11-wm/fvwm x11-wm/sawfish !gtk2 x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap !imlib2 www-client/w3m imlib app-editors/zoinks imlib app-office/magicpoint imlib kde-base/kdegraphics imlib mail-client/sylpheed imlib mail-client/sylpheed-claws imlib media-gfx/gimageview imlib media-gfx/iv imlib net-im/amsn imlib www-client/w3mmee imlib x11-misc/wmakerconf imlib x11-wm/icewm imlib x11-wm/qvwm Programs That Depend On kuickshow kde-base/kdegraphics kde-base/kdegraphics-meta Programs That Depend On kdegraphics-meta kde-base/kde-meta So imlib is needed because kde-meta depends on kdegraphics-meta, which depends on kuickshow, which depends on imlib. But some gif header needed by imlib is not installed or broken: (Piped to prevent quoting) Runtime Dependencies imlib-1.9.15 | >= media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | >= media-libs/jpeg - 6b | >= media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | >= media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | gtk = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* imlib-1.9.14-r3 | >= media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | >= media-libs/jpeg - 6b | >= media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | >= media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* ... aand my guess is that package would be gif >= media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 Is this package installed? If so, I would consider re-emerging it (and possibly imlib as well), with emerge --oneshot --ask giflib or emerge --oneshot --onlydeps --ask imlib You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice (but maybe this is not important to you). Or, you could of course check b.g.o (bugs.gentoo.org) to see if this is a known problem. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list