chessdb X11 Libs

[Al_Ko]

Hi Everybody, I have been trying to compile Chessdb (an improvement of SCID) from scratch on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine. When I run ./configure to start compilation process, I get the following message:

configure: Makefile configuration program for ChessDB Renaming "Makefile" to "Makefile.bak"
Tcl/Tk version: 8.4
Your operating system is: Linux 3.8.0-39-generic
Location of "tcl.h": /usr/include/tcl8.4
Location of "tk.h": /usr/include/tcl8.4
Location of Tcl 8.4 library: /usr/lib
Location of Tk 8.4 library: /usr/lib
Location of X11 library: not found
Checking if your system already has zlib installed: yes.
Not all settings could be determined!
The default Makefile was written.
You will need to edit it before you can compile ChessDB.

I have tried to edit the makefile and find the library, but all to no avail. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help or at least tell me what is going on

Thanks!

[steeldriver]

I have no experience with the particular software you are trying to build, so I don't know which "X11 library" it is looking for in this case; however if you don't mind the possibility of a few unneeded packages getting installed along the way then installing the xorg-dev metapackage will probably fix it



sudo apt-get install xorg-dev


From apt-cache show xorg-dev:


Description-en: X.Org X Window System development libraries
This metapackage provides the development libraries for the X.Org X Window
System.
.
X Window System design documentation, manual pages, library reference
works, static versions of the shared libraries, and C header files are
supplied by the packages depended on by this metapackage.