Ubuntu common software installation errors

1. Error: Can't Find x supported des. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
Cause: no x contained files
Solution: Install xlibs-Dev.

2. Error: QT (> = QT 3.0) (headers and libraries) Not found. Please check your installation!
Cause: Find and install the Lib & headers software package that provides QT.
Solution: APT-Get install libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev

3. Error: In the prefix, you 've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
Cause: Install a KDE application in a gnome environment.
Solution: Which basically means its going to want to install a lot of KDE specific packages to work. This 'configure: error'
Is due to it expecting you to be running KDE and again refers to some 'headers '.
Sudo apt-Get update
Sudo apt-Get install kdelibs4-dev kdelibs4c2a

4. Error: C compiler cannot create executables
Cause:
Solution: sudo apt-Get GCC libc6-dev

5. Error: checking for C compiler default output... configure: Error: C compiler cannot create executables
Cause:
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libc6-dev

6. Error: Configure: Error: C ++ Preprocessor "/lib/CPP" fails sanity check
Cause: the GCC component is not fully installed.
Solution: APT-Get install build-essential

7. Error:./admin/CVS. sh: 585: Autoconf: not found
Cause:
Solution: APT-Get install Autoconf

8. Error: *** GTK> = 2.4.0 not installed! ***
Cause: GTK is not installed.
Solution: APT-Get build-dep gedit

9. Error: heching for GTK-config... no
Checking for GTK-version = 1.2.0... no
* ** The GTK-config script installed by GTK cocould not be found
* ** If GTK was installed in prefix, make sure prefix/bin is in
* ** Your path, or set the gtk_config enviroment variable to
* ** Full path to GTK-config.
Configure: Error: cannot find GTK: Is GTK-config in path?
Cause:
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libgtk1.2-Dev

10. Problem: encoding in eclipse does not support Chinese Characters
Solution: Edit/var/lib/locales/supported. d/local, add a line of zh_cn.gbk GBK, and run sudo locale-Gen.

11. Problem: EVA does not display the Input Method
Solution: sudo apt-Get install scim-qtimm

12. Problem: no package 'gtk +-2.0 'Found
No package 'gtksourceview-1.0 'Found
No package 'libgnomeui-2.0 'Found
No package 'libglade-2.0 'Found
No package 'libgnomeprintui-2.2 'Found
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtksourceview-dev libgnomeui-dev libglade2-dev libgnomeprint2.2-Dev

13. Problem: no package 'libpanelapplet-2.0 'Found
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev

Error: Configure: Error: C ++ Preprocessor "/lib/CPP" fails sanity check

Cause: the GCC component is not fully installed.
Solution: APT-Get install build-essential

Problem: encoding in eclipse does not support Chinese Characters
Solution: Edit/var/lib/locales/supported. d/local, add a line of zh_cn.gbk GBK, and run sudo locale-Gen.

Error: gnome. h: no such file or directory

Problem: no package 'gtk +-2.0 'Found
No package 'gtksourceview-1.0 'Found
No package 'libgnomeui-2.0 'Found
No package 'libglade-2.0 'Found
No package 'libgnomeprintui-2.2 'Found
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libgtk2.0-dev libgtksourceview-dev libgnomeui-dev libglade2-dev libgnomeprint2.2-Dev

Problem: no package 'libpanelapplet-2.0 'Found
Solution: sudo apt-Get install libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev

Also excerpted:

Compile
./Configure (it is recommended that you use-help to query required parameters)
Make
Sudo make install
If an error occurs in the./configure step

Error 1:
Configure: Error:

You must have the GTK + 2.0 development headers installed to compile pidgin.
If you only want to build Finch then specify-Disable-gtkui when running configure.
Solution:
Sudo apt-Get install libgtk2.0-Dev

Error 2:
Configure: Error:

You must have libxml2> = 2.6.0 development headers installed to build.
Solution:
Sudo apt-Get install libxml2-dev

Error 3:
Configure: Error:

The msgfmt command is required to build libpurple. If it is installed on your system, ensure that it is in your path. If it is not, install GNU gettext to continue.
Solution:
Sudo apt-Get install gettext
If an error occurs when using Gtalk or MSN

Error:
SSL library/libraries ......... : None (MSN and Google Talk will not work
Without SSL !)
Solution:
Sudo apt-Get install libnss-dev libnspr-Dev

If problems still occur in./configure, find the problem and install the missing package.

In the configuration process, the config. log file is very helpful. We can find the root cause of the error here to find the countermeasures.