on 8/19/2007 4:01 PM, Tom Poe wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> on 8/19/2007 3:24 PM, Tom Poe wrote: >> >>> Todd Zullinger wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks for the reminder. I noticed that the yum check-updates have not >>> been adding updates for quite a few days, now. Looks like I better bite >>> the bullet and try an upgrade to FC6. When I ran yum for the >>> development package, it errored with needing gimp-libs, which starts >>> with FC6 at the Freshmeat repo. Could be one of those nights, I guess. :) >>> Tom >>> >> >> FC6 will be EOL around December 2007. >> >> >> > Good point! Boy, it sure would be nice for the packages for Fedora to > be a little more backward-compatible. Is FC8 supposed to be released then? > Tom Yes. It is scheduled for early November 2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ -- David
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