[SOLVED] Configuring From Source

[amithad]

Hi,

When I try to configure and install Linux packages from the source tar ball
I get the following error most of the time. Why is that

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PYGTK... no
configure: error: Package requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6) were not met:

No package 'pygtk-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PYGTK_CFLAGS
and PYGTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

Thanks

[Rubberman]

Basically that means you are missing a required dependency, the Python GTK package, or your system has the wrong version installed. What distribution+version of Linux are you running? And what desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc)? You can see if you have it installed. If your system is a 64bit one, then look for the file /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pygtk-2.0.pc, or /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pygtk-2.0.pc for 32-bit or mixed-mode systems.

[amithad]

Dear Rubberman

I'm using CentOS 5.5 32 bit i386 version.

When I search the pkgconfig folder I cant find pygtk-2.0.pc in it.

[amitha@localhost pkgconfig]$ ls
devmapper-event.pc gnome-python-desktop-2.0.pc gweather.pc
devmapper.pc gnome-python-extras-2.0.pc libmetacity-private.pc
fontutil.pc gnome-screensaver.pc libnfsidmap.pc
gnome-mime-data-2.0.pc gswitchit.pc librpcsecgss.pc
gnome-python-2.0.pc gtk-engines-2.pc shared-mime-info.pc
[amitha@localhost pkgconfig]$

[Rubberman]

Try the command "yum install pygtk2-devel" if you are running a Red Hat distribution (RHEL or Fedora). If running a Debian or Ubuntu system (Mint, et al) then use the apt-get command, or the synaptic package manager.

[amithad]

Try the command "yum install pygtk2-devel" if you are running a Red Hat distribution (RHEL or Fedora). If running a Debian or Ubuntu system (Mint, et al) then use the apt-get command, or the synaptic package manager.

Thanks Rubberman !

It really worked for me . Apart from the yum install pygtk2-devel command I had to install intltool also

Many thanks !!!

Amitha