Need Help with installing tar files!

[brooklotzkar]

Hello everyone, I have been trying to install Enchant (since Abiword needs it in order to install), but when I try to install the .tar.gz file of Enchant, it doesn't work properly. I have downloaded, untarred, and got into the directory (cd ...), but when i try to ./configure, the following message appears in the root terminal in Gnome:

Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'glib-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

So does anyone know how I do this?

Thanks,
Brook

[jens]

Hello everyone, I have been trying to install Enchant (since Abiword needs it in order to install), but when I try to install the .tar.gz file of Enchant, it doesn't work properly. I have downloaded, untarred, and got into the directory (cd ...), but when i try to ./configure, the following message appears in the root terminal in Gnome:

Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'glib-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

So does anyone know how I do this?

Thanks,
Brook

Don't. You'll break your apt system.
Any reason for not using Debian's Abiword package?
#apt-get install abiword

(If your doing this cause of the huge "GNOME-deleting-bug" in etch, that's already fixed)

Don't install just any source code in Debian, if you don't like an existing deb binary, build your own one(it's easy) and file a bug report mentioning the reason why the existing one didn't work for you (unless it's a version/update issue).

[brooklotzkar]

apt-get abiword does not work. I also tried apt-cache search abiword, but nothing shows up. Is there anything else I can do to install abiword?

Also when I was installing Debian Etch, I deselected the option of having a network mirror (to update the database, etc.) How do I turn it back on?

[jens]

apt-get abiword does not work. I also tried apt-cache search abiword, but nothing shows up. Is there anything else I can do to install abiword?

Also when I was installing Debian Etch, I deselected the option of having a network mirror (to update the database, etc.) How do I turn it back on?

Add it manually in /etc/apt/sources.list:
#su
#gedid /etc/apt/sources.list
add:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

#apt-get update

You can find the fastest mirror for you by using netselect-apt (other tools exist as well).

#apt-get install netselect-apt
#netselect-apt (this might take some time).

Replace "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian" with your newly found fastest mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list

Next just update your system:
#apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade