installation of wxpython source returns strange error
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installation of wxpython source returns strange error
I am trying to install wxpython from source package when ran ./configure command it came up with a strange message which says
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configure: WARNING: system tiff library not found, will use built-in instead
checking for expat.h... yes
checking if expat.h is valid C++ header... yes
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
checking for mspack.h... no
checking for GTK+ version...
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
The development files for GTK+ were not found. For GTK+ 2, please
ensure that pkg-config is in the path and that gtk+-2.0.pc is
installed. For GTK+ 1.2 please check that gtk-config is in the path,
and that the version is 1.2.3 or above. Also check that the
libraries returned by 'pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs' or 'gtk-config
--libs' are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent.
Do you have the gtk2-devel package installed?
Try "which pkg-config". If you dont have it, you may need the a "pkg-config" package installed as well.
You may not have read the README and INSTALL files in your wxPython-src package directory. Be sure you do.
One difference between building your own packages or installing a pre-built one is that the dependencies of the packages will also contain -devel versions. The regular library dependencies will contain the .so files. The -devel packages have the .o static libraries and .h header files.
In your case, you are missing a package needed to build the wxPython package that the .configure script itself uses. You may have more dependencies to install later. In time you will need fewer and fewer dependencies because they were needed for previous package builds.
installation of wxpython source returns strange error
I am using ubuntu9.10 dekstop edition and i have pkg-config and i am following INSTALL.txt and got the same error
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root@miriyala-laptop:/home/miriyala/Downloads/wxPython-src-2.8.10.1/bld# ../configure --prefix=/opt/wx/2.8 --with-gtk=2.0 --enable-display --enable-mediactrl --enable-sound --with-sdl --enable-graphics_ctx --enable-geometry --enable-debug_gdb --enable-debug --with-opengl --with-gnomeprint
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
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loading argument cache configarg.cache
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checking for mspack.h... no
checking for GTK+ version...
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
The development files for GTK+ were not found. For GTK+ 2, please
ensure that pkg-config is in the path and that gtk+-2.0.pc is
installed. For GTK+ 1.2 please check that gtk-config is in the path,
and that the version is 1.2.3 or above. Also check that the
libraries returned by 'pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs' or 'gtk-config
--libs' are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent.
installation of wxpython source returns strange error
well at last i downloaded source tar ball and installed successfully but i have installed required development packages.anyway thanks a lot for taking time to reply
One other thing to watch for sometimes is when you add another directory of libraries. You need to add the directory path to
/etc/ld.so.conf and then run "sudo /sbin/ldconfig". This usually isn't necessary for default builds, but if you never built a package before under /usr/, then /usr/lib/ might not be in the library path.
Running "sudo /sbin/ldconfig" won't hurt. It will clear up rare problems.
The error message mentioned more than one package. Check each one.
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