On Sunday 18 February 2007 14:24, Forest Bond wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:47:22AM -0600, 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. > > Incidentally, you might just consider grabbing the .deb from the ubuntu > repositories. This one didn't make it into the Debian repos, yet. > > Download the .orig.tar.gz and the diff.gz for the hexter package, and build > the .deb yourself. Then you can install the package using 'dpkg -i'. > > -Forest btw Josh. If you get Hexter going ok, and it still doesn't come with a desktop icon, I can send you one I made up from the logo using the gimp. Nigel.
