This is a unsorted quick notes about TDE build issues, by distribution. ALL DISTRIBUTIONS (or almost): Some libraries are required but not provided by distribution anymore. You can find them in "3rdparty" folder. imlib1 : required for kuickshow python-qt3 (also known as PyQt) : required for python-related packages (TDE 3.5.13 only, not R14) hal : required for TDE 3.5.13.2, most recent distribution do NOT ship it. wv2 : required for koffice CENTOS 6: ligogg-devel package is missing file '/usr/lib[64]/libogg.la' Missing header 'jpegint.h' MAGEIA 2/3: Remove db4-devel and install db5-devel only. Several version of postgresl-devel exist. Ensure you have the latest one installed, or you will build against an old one ! MGA2: 9.1 MGA3: 9.2 CENTOS 4 / CENTOS 5 Some mandatory packages are missing or too old. I had to build newer version in order to have TDE function correctly. curl (built as trinity-curl) poppler (built as trinity-poppler) OPENSUSE 11.x and 12.x Missing cmake macros for RPM. Manually copy file 'macros.cmake' from Fedora to '/etc/rpm' Starting with OSS 13.1, the cmake macro is here. OPENSUSE 13.1 Macro '%suse_version' has value 1230 instead of 1310. Need manual fixing. OPENSUSE 11.4 Bug in 'libical-devel' package. (causes FTBFS in tdepim) Edit file '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libical.pc' Then change as follow: Cflags: -I${includedir}/libical To avoid relinking error on i18n (e.g. rpmbuild fails in amarok), create symlink manually on build system: for i in ar bg bn ca cs da de el en_GB es et fi fr he hi hu is it ja lt nl nb nn pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sr sv ta tr uk zh_CN zh_TW; do mkdir -p /opt/trinity/share/doc/tde/HTML/$i/common done FEDORA 20 kopete-otr: Missing 'libotr3' autotools macros. Need to put manually '.m4' file from source package in correct folder. PCLINUXOS: Many '.la' files are missing under '/usr/lib'. Need manual creation.