I like to use geany for much of my programming (I know people have plenty of opinions on that choice), but I'm using a university computer. On this computer I don't have root access, but I'd still like to install geany. The geany installation requires the intltool package, which you would normally install with root into one of the folders only root has permissions to. So instead I installed it to a folder in my own directory. However, when trying to use geany's ./configure, it doesn't see these files. How do I get geany's configure to check this folder for these files as well? Thanks for your time!

do ./configure --help. There's probably an option like --intltool= where you can specify the path.

Well, the help mentions PKG_CONFIG_PATH which does is for "directories to add to pkg-config's search path". I set this to be the path to the files that it was looking for but it still doesn't seem to find them. Am I doing something wrong by setting this value? I echoed it to check that I really had changed it correctly. Any more suggestions? Thanks for the help so far.