On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:28:05 -0500, Meat Plow wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:32:20 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
>
>> I demand that Meat Plow may or may not have written...
>>
>>> Is there a workaround for this "KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer"
>>> error?
>>
>> You mean other than "aptitude install autoconf? :-)
>
> I have autoconf 2.61 and all the other associated tools installed. This
> is a documented Debian/KDE bug hence my question for a "workaround".

From here: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=450024>

The solution is:

sudo apt-get install automake

Note it is auto*make* that you are installing and *not* auto*conf*.

It worked for me.

HTH

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