Can not install screensavers in Fedora 7 "getopt is missing but required"
 

Hi there.
I am aware that this question has been asked before. The whole net is actually crawling of it - yet none of the examples can be related 100% to my own issue - that's why I'm posting this hoping some of you guys can help.

Anyway, I came across few of these cool GLX screensavers and wanted to install them. I did it with ./configure command.

The program did a check on my system and stoped with following line:

"getopt is missing but required".

I know that getopt is installed on my system, and all other stuff that I think is needed. I can include log file, but it's extremely huge. Perhaps some of you guys have idea already how to fix this.

Otherwise I'll get back with the log.

Thanks in advance!
M.

I know that this does not answer your question, but some of the "Really Slick Screensavers using GLX" are already prepackaged for Fedora:

# yum install rss-glx-xscreensaver rss-glx-kde

Hi and thanx for the reply!
Well, you're right. It doesn't really answer my question. I actually did check out xscreensaver on my own...and it turned out to be quite complicated as well - when it came to how actually setting it to run from system start up and stuff like that (I didn't mention - I'm newbie). Also I discovered that some of the better looking screensavers, GL-ones, are pretty badly optimised performance-wise, if you ask me. I don't have that powerful computer (Athlon 2000+ XP, 768MB RAM, Geforce 5900XT), but I figure, if I can run Half-Life2 in Windows on nearly maximum detail (DX 8.1 mode), I figure I shouldn't be having performance problems with a thiny screensaver that was written like in 1999 or something.

So I just think I'll be sticking to GNOME-glx screensavers (discovered that recently too... :) ) before somebody eventually figures out how my original problem can be solved...

Thanx one more time! :)