Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

[Hamid]

Hi
I am using Debian for a month now and I used to have RedHat 8.0
In RedHat, I could download a tar ball of a project (say, KDevelop 
snapshots) and use provided ./configure script to compile the 
application and use it.
But in Debian, I am having hard times with this type of approach. For 
example I had to spend a lot of time to figure out why I could not 
compile the recent version of "Downloader For X". It turned out to be 
that the standard installation of GTK libraries does not install 
gtk-config and you have to install it manually. Or for KDevelop it 
complains that there is no libqt3 installed but I have the recent 
libraries for Qt but they are just the libraries and there is no 
"qtconfig" as opposed to RedHat installation of Qt, and I guess that's 
why the "./configure" script can not find it.
Well, I know that I can download the Qt tar ball and start from scratch 
to get some of these files, but is there a better way ?
My question is : should I tweak all the ./configure files to make them 
find my libraries or ....
Any hint and help on this issue is appreciated
Thanks
Hamid



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