Hi, "Adam D. Moss" <adam@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I feel your pain. > > This is as good a point to ask as any; in following the > latest incarnation of the crazy dep-chain I ran into a > dead-end finding the mysterious 'fontconfig' (fontconfig > is needed by pango is needed by gtk2 is needed by gimp). > Anyone know where I can find such a thing? I thought > that it sounded like it was probably part of pkgconfig > (pkgconfig is needed by... etc) but it doesn't seem to > be. you shouldn't be using unstable development versions of glib, pango and gtk+. If you are using CVS, please make sure that you checkout the stable branches, glib-2-0, pango-1-0 and gtk-2-0. If you insist on working with the unstable versions, subscribe to gtk-devel-list where this stuff is being discussed in all details. Salut, Sven