Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
>
>> Eduardo,
>>
>> Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially
>> so quickly?
>>
>> Randy Kramer
>>
>> On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>>> On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote:
>>> > Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this:
>>> >
>>> > "Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
>>> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the
>>> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
>>> > make: Nothing to be done for `all'."
>>>
>>> The only thing you need is the gtk+2 2.0 devel package:
>>>
>>> libgtk2.0-dev
>>>
>>> apt-file search gtk+-2.0.pc indicates to which package that file
>>> belongs.
>
> Short answer: Because when you are running ./configure and see a message
> saying "Package xyz was not found in the pkg-config search path", it
> usually means (in Debian) that you need to install xyz*-dev* (asterisks
> are for emphasis). xyz alone is not enough for the build.
To amplify: Read the error message and (as Eduardo says) do an apt-file
search for the missing *file*.
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