I got a message of "Could NOT find Decibel (missing: DECIBEL_LIBRARIES)" while compiling kopete, and I have already install the decibel package.
Does anyone knows why ? Thanks

Which distro are you using? Perhaps you have to install a decibel-devel package?

For future questions, you should specify your distro/OS in your User CP.

Cheers, m

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 Kde4.2 Beta 2.
Also, I have installed the decibel-dev package and I can find the decibel libraries manually in the path /usr/lib/decibel. But the message was keeping pop-up while compiling.

Maybe the version of Decibel that you have is too old. You may need to compile the latest version from KDE support.

Umm..
I have installed libdecibel0.7.0 0.7.0~svn806471-1ubuntu3 in i386 (Release), decibel 0.7.0~svn806471-1ubuntu3 in i386 (Release), libdecibel-dev 0.7.0~svn806471-1ubuntu3 in i386 (Release), libdecibel-runtime 0.7.0~svn806471-1ubuntu3 in i386 (Release)

-- Found Qt-Version 4.4.3 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Phonon Version: 4.2.96
-- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Found libortp: /usr/lib/libortp.so
-- Found ALSA: /usr/lib/libasound.so
-- Found speex library : /usr/lib/libspeex.so
-- Could NOT find Decibel (missing: DECIBEL_LIBRARIES)
-- Could NOT find Decibel (missing: DECIBEL_LIBRARIES)
-- Found Soprano: /usr/lib/libsoprano.so
-- Found Soprano includes: /usr/include
-- Found Soprano Index: /usr/lib/libsopranoindex.so
-- Found Soprano Client: /usr/lib/libsopranoclient.so
-- Found Soprano Plugin Dir: /usr/share/soprano/plugins
-- Found Soprano Plugins: nquadparser nquadserializer raptorparser raptorserializer redlandbackend
-- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig
-- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig
-- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- The following external packages were located on your system.
-- This installation will have the extra features provided by these packages.
+ libvncserver
+ libortp
+ speex
+ libjpeg
+ QCA2
+ IDN
+ Soprano
+ Nepomuk
+ SQLite
+ XMMS
+ LibXML2
+ LibXSLT
+ libotr
+ libmsn
+ libmeanwhile
+ libgadu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- The following OPTIONAL packages could NOT be located on your system.
-- Consider installing them to enable more features from this software.
+ Decibel: KDE framework for real-time communication
Used by the Kopete telepathy protocol.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Can anyone help?

Thanks all.Finally, I finished compiling kopete, but it didn't work.Haha.
Is there any difference between kopete compiled from source and kopete installed from apt-get?
Also, does kopete support webcam ? I can see my webcam device and preview in configuration but I can't send or receive webcam from my friends. So strange!

flow wrote:Thanks all.Finally, I finished compiling kopete, but it didn't work.Haha.
Is there any difference between kopete compiled from source and kopete installed from apt-get?
Also, does kopete support webcam ? I can see my webcam device and preview in configuration but I can't send or receive webcam from my friends. So strange!

In what way didn't it work? I've found that mine doesn't work either and wonder if it might be the same ... for me the configuration dialog is completely blank if I start it with no settings ... other than that, if I copy over an old set of settings, it looks like I'm receiving messages, but the messages dialog is empty, and I can't really send or receive anything. Edit:Wait ... guess something just went wacky with the style, it's working.

Umm..it is completely the same as yours.The configuration dialog is completely blank.
I dont know which part of the compiling process goes wrong.

It is more than likely because resource files cannot be found, or libraries are of the incorrect versions ( ie: the system installed version over your compiled one ). Ensure that you have set the appropriate environment variables.

Thanks.I will try to solve the problem!