DDK fails to compile on debian Sarge (now stable)

[Anonymous]

> Unfortunately, the CUPS-DDK seems not to be included in the debian package system, so I downloaded it to compile and use it.
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> But so far, the ./configure fails with:
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> checking for random... yes
> checking for mrand48... yes
> checking for lrand48... yes
> checking for library containing pow... -lm
> checking for cups-config... no
> configure: error: CUPS 1.1.19 or higher is required for the CUPS DDK!
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> I do not really know how to check for the cups version. However, the following suggests that it's a higher version than needed, e.g. 1.1.23:
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> > apt-cache show cupsys
> Package: cupsys
> Priority: optional
> Section: net
> Installed-Size: 15928
> Maintainer: Kenshi Muto <kmuto at debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.1.23-10

>From a former message in this forum I deduced that the solution seems to be to install the development package using the command:

> apt-get install libcupsys2-dev

After this, the ./configure seems to work fine.

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