Tom Poe wrote: > I want to install tarball of gimp-gap, since there's no rpm > available to work with gimp2.2. Naturally, it won't find gimp on my > FC5, but I don't know what to do with message. Any help > appreciated: > [message] > checking for GIMP... configure: error: Package requirements > (gimp-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpui-2.0>= 2.2.0 gimpthumb-2.0) were not met. > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you > installed software in a non-standard prefix. > > Alternatively you may set the GIMP_CFLAGS and GIMP_LIBS environment > variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config > man page for more details. [tom@localhost gimp-gap-2.2.0]$ echo > $PKG_CONFIG_PATH If you install gimp-devel, then pkg-config should be happy. The gimp-devel package includes (among other needed things) the .pc files needed for pkg-config to do it's thing. Sometimes you may need to alter PKG_CONFIG_PATH if you've installed something in /usr/local for example. Most of the time if you're seeing this error it means you've missing the proper -devel package. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality. -- Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
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