On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:47, Josh Lawrence wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm getting really, really frustrated and need some help. I've been > trying for the past week to install software that depends on pkgconfig > to find libraries. My most recent outing was to install dssi so I > could try out hexter. I install dssi by doing apt-get install etc. > Now I'm trying to compile hexter (there's no package for that), and it > complains that pkgconfig doesn't know about dssi, so I need to adjust > my pkg_config_path variable. > > Now my understanding is that, in order for pkgconfig to "know" about a > library, there has to be a .pc file that contains metadata for it. > Alas, there is no dssi.pc on my system. Am I stuck? As Folderol has just said, you will need the dssi-dev package as well. Hexter's a nice synth, hope you get it working ok. Nigel.
