skim fails to install: can't find library libscim-kdeutils

jerrry94087 · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 41

I am unable to install Chinese keyboard support (app-i18n/scim-pinyin) because the requisite package app-i18n/skim fails to build:

/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lscim-kdeutils
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [src/libskim.so.0.1.0] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

There is some seemingly related patch skim-1.4.5-asneeded.patch that was applied in the beginning of the build.

How do I make this error to go away?

ant1688 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 138

I have the same problem for long.
I have read many posts and tried many suggestions, no one works.

phsiao · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 3

You can try the following command. That works for me.

1. ebuild /usr/portage/app-i18n/skim/skim-1.4.5.ebuild compile
2. ebuild /usr/portage/app-i18n/skim/skim-1.4.5.ebuild install
After that, please copy html files according to console message. It's strange it can't copy html correctly.
3. ebuild /usr/portage/app-i18n/skim/skim-1.4.5.ebuild qmerge.