"Can't find X includes" error

[randavance]

Hi, I'm trying to install this crazy QtCurve KDE Theme and though I'm firly newb to Linux, and compleate newb to KDE and using the command line, I've maanaged to get as a far as this error.

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

usualy I like to figure out these things myself so I looked around on forums to see what others dis, but I couldent find anything that would work. At this point I've been searching for 2 nights now and desprately want to go to bed, so if you know anything I can try please let me know, I very well may name a pet after you or something (not that that would effect you), and mind you I'm a newb so detailed intructions are much apreciated.

[penguin.ch]

Re: "Can't find X includes" error

Randavance,

have you tried to follow the instructions on how to install this theme as issued on the web site your link points to? From what you're posting, I doubt it - what I suspect is that you've tried to install it by hand (read: from source) ...

Just to check things out, I've installed the same theme on my Kubuntu system, proceeding as follows:

1. Download the file (surprise, surprise ...)
2. Instruct package management to install it:

sudo dpkg -i [path to / name of package]

3. Open up KDE's System Settings - Appearance - Style and select QtCurve

I have to admit that this took me only a couple of minutes ... so, in order to help you solve your (definitely much more time-consuming) problem, would you please tell me / us precisely what you have been trying ...

Regards
Bernd

P.S.: please, do not take this post as offensive but as a case of bad style, if you feel like it - I'm only trying to get to the point without writing screeds.

[randavance]

Re: "Can't find X includes" error

Heh, well I feel like an idiot. I must have somehow downloaded [ur=http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=40492l]this[/url] one instead, which came in a "QtCurve-KDE3-0.43.2.tar.gz" and I followed the vauge install instructions in the file accordingly eventualy leading me to my problam while I could have just used the "Kubuntu" specific version of it that I posted above. Thank you for pointing out my blatent error, being my stuborness I probably would have sat infront of that command line for ages with firefox open searching for ways to install that "x includes" while my real problem was at a much broader level. Thank you again, it seems to have worked (in a matter of seconds too), I very well may name my next pet after you (penguin would make a good pet name).

[penguin.ch]

Re: "Can't find X includes" error

Randavance,

in case this might help you calming down: I made the very same mistake more often than I'm willing to remember ... simply because, after more than a decade of "professional Windozeism", I had been used to look for a solution as illogical as complicated - and it took me more than a year to get used to the fact that a lot of Linux guys seem to have (metaphorically speaking Ockham's Razor in their toolbox in other words: in the Linux world, it does make sense to look for a plain and simple solution first - for, as a rule, it will provide what you need ...

Bernd