help: installing from source

Jiraiya · 04-15-2006, 05:39 PM

I'm trying to install libxfce4mcs-4.2.3I. I run

Code:

./configure --prefix=$HOME
make 
make install

So now I try to install xfce-mcs-manager-4.2.3but in the end I get

Quote:

checking for libxfcegui4-1.0 >= 4.2.0... not found
*** The required package libxfcegui4-1.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install libxfcegui4-1.0 (atleast version 4.2.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.

I tried adding my home to $PKG_CONFIG_PATH but it still doesn't work.

What did I do wrong?

reddazz · 04-15-2006, 05:45 PM

Did you install libxfcegui first? There is a list on the XFCE website that shows the order in which you must compile packages.

madluther · 04-15-2006, 05:47 PM

If your prefix=$HOME then add $HOME/lib/pkgconfig to $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Jiraiya · 04-15-2006, 06:13 PM

Thank You very much for the reply.

Before I proceed with all instructions. Is there anything wrong with what I'm doing? like security risk?

I didn't bother to install XFCE sytem wide because I'm the only user and root doesn't need it.