At Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:15:35PM -0800, Jeff Heath wrote: > I'm trying to install gnome. Discovered that I needed to update gtk, > then discovered that I need to update glib, and install pango and atk. First and foremost, read the installation guide if you haven't already: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-building.html > installed glib-2.2.3 and everything seemed to go well, but when I tried > to install pango-1.2.5, I got the following error message during > configure (see below). > > checking for fontconfig >= 1.0.1... Package fontconfig was not found in > the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'fontconfig' found > configure: WARNING: No fontconfig found, skipping tests for FreeType and > Xft You probably want to install fontconfig, freetype, and xft as well... although they may be on the system already. Try with PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig before doing anything drastic. > checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.3... > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3, but GLIB (2.0.6) > *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best > *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the > error > *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing > *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is > *** required on your system. > *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable > PKG_CONFIG_PATH > *** to point to the correct configuration files > no > configure: error: > *** Glib 2.1.3 or better is required. The latest version of > *** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. > > > It seems that maybe the glib installation didn't go as well as I > thought. I'm a Linux newbie, so I'm hesitant to remove the old version > of glib (as suggested below), nor do I know how to do so. I did a > search on files named glib* and came up with about 350. Lots of them > glib-2.0 something. This error says "pkg-config is working fine, but the linker isn't"; so you can either set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig). I forget which way is recommended. > Is /root/.bash_profile where I should change the environment > variable mentioned above? here's the /root/.bash_profile file: Instead of "forever", it's also possible to set it for one command: prompt$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./configure Or for every command until exiting the shell: prompt$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Jeff -- Chad Daelhousen My opinions are my own, until UB purchases my soul. Do not BCC me; it is considered spam and deleted. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
