Error: X is required

GNU Radio
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I’m trying to install the GNU Radio on a Debian system and found that I
need Xrender to install Xft to install Pango to install GTK+ so that I
can use the wxgui module.

X windows is located in the typical directories: /usr/X11R6/bin/ and
/etc/X11/ I’ve used ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6/ as well as no
prefix specified. I always get the error:

Checking for X… no
Configure: error: X is required, but it was either disabled or not
found.

Any ideas on how to get this to work? I know X exists because I can use
x windows. If that fails- how about help on just using text based
gnuradio programs?

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On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 15:30 -0500, Cicale Randy S 2dLt AFRL/VSBXI wrote:

Checking for X… no
Configure: error: X is required, but it was either disabled or not found.

What configuration script are you running that outputs the above?

–
Johnathan C., AE6HO
Corgan Enterprises LLC
[email protected]

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Cicale Randy S 2dLt AFRL/VSBXI wrote:

I’m trying to install the GNU Radio on a Debian system and found that I need Xrender to install Xft to install Pango to install GTK+ so that I can use the wxgui module.

I’m not sure how to solve your problem, but specifying --prefix will not
help because --prefix tells where to install something, not where to
find out where something else is installed.

Chris

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Cicale Randy S 2dLt AFRL/VSBXI schrieb:

I’m trying to install the GNU Radio on a Debian system and found that I need Xrender to install Xft to install Pango to install GTK+ so that I can use the wxgui module.

I have successfully installed GNURadio on a Debian system from the
GNURadio Debian package,
provided by Bdale Garbee, found here:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnuradio.html

This overcame many problems that I had getting GNURadio up and working,
from ‘primary sources’ along with the forest of
contributing packages.

John C…

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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:00, Cicale Randy S 2dLt AFRL/VSBXI wrote:

Any ideas on how to get this to work? I know X exists because I can use x
windows. If that fails- how about help on just using text based gnuradio
programs?

1- Try reading config.log in the build directory.
2- Try env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/X11R6/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11R6/lib
./configure

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2006/12/18, Cicale Randy S 2dLt AFRL/VSBXI
[email protected]:

[…]

Any ideas on how to get this to work? I know X exists because I can use x windows. If that fails- how about help on just using text based gnuradio programs?

I am no Debian Guru, but I assume you have to install some
developement packages. Which one depends on which version of Debian
you are running, but for testing and unstable you can install
xorg-dev.

–
Trond D.