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Re: pkg-config does not see a package that i installed via apt-get (libmypaint)



On 12/11/19 4:39 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I installed the package libmypaint1.3.0 on my debian 10 system.

Best to copy & paste these things - I assume you mean libmypaint-1.3-0

> 
> I can tell it is installed because when i run the command
> sudo apt-get install libmypaint-1.3.0

Different again :-)

> the system responds with "libmypaint-1.3-0 is already the newest version".
> 
> It also says "libmypaint-1.3-0 set to manually installed", which i do
> not know how to interpret.
> 
> Nevertheless, if i run the command
> pkg-config --exists --print-errors "libmypaint >= 1.3.0"
> i get the message "No package 'libmypaint' found" (and exit status 1).

Note that the package name is "libmypaint-1.3-0", not "libmypaint", so
that's what I would expect. Not that I'm familiar with pkg-config.

Richard

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