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Posted: **05.09.2004, 23:35**

I'm trying to compiling celestia-1.3.2 under root on fedora 2 core, but I'm having no luck.

Here's what I get...

checking whether g++ supports -fexceptions... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking whether g++ supports -frepo... yes
checking for X... no
checking for deflate in -lz... no
configure: error: zlib not found.

Posted: **06.09.2004, 06:35**

Hello,

as it says, you have no zlib installed.

Get it from http://www.zlib.org if it's not bundled with your fedora...

MfG - HJW

Posted: **06.09.2004, 12:20**

Well, I can't imagine that fedora doesn't have zlib, probably he just hasn't the development-version installed, which should be easily installable from whatever installer fedora uses. If he doesn't have the devel version of zlib installed, there are probably tons of other libraries which need their development counterparts to be installed too...

Harald

Posted: **06.09.2004, 13:09**

Its the configure under root that I have a problem with. It's not a good idea to run scripts as root unless absolutely necessary, like a "make install" to install to /usr.

Also you don't seem to have X... this could be a side-effect of running as root, but this might also turn out to be a problem.

Try this as a normal user:

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[home@localhost]$./configure --with-kde
// Lots of configure info //
[home@localhost]$make
[home@localhost]$su
Password:
[root@localhost]#make install
[root@localhost]#exit

Try this, and if it still doesn't work, post your configure info here.

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