compiling source of abiword

[chris]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:37 +0530, dd wrote:
> I need your help. You may either read this mail or please visit
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10647750#post10647750
> 
> Well, I've been for some time trying to compile the source of AbiWord
> (I know the package is available; just trying to do it myself ) . Now,
> when I run ./configure it gives the following missing packages.
> 
> 
> Quote:
> No package 'fribidi' found
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> No package 'gthread-2.0' found
> No package 'gobject-2.0' found
> No package 'libgsf-1' found
> No package 'wv-1.0' found
> No package 'cairo-pdf' found
> No package 'cairo-ps' found
> No package 'pangocairo' found
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> No package 'gtk+-unix-print-2.0' found
> No package 'librsvg-2.0' found
> In my /usr/lib folder there are already the glib-2.0 and gtk2.0
> folders present. and most of the programs installed in my pc require
> gtk to run properly. So, I definitely have it installed. Then why is
> the error? I see the configure script searches for dep.s
> in /usr/lib/pkgconfig; which doesn't have the missing packages. 
> 
> does it require those .pc files? and I'll have to install each and
> every missing packages with apt-get?
> 
> 
> 
> ok..so I already got those missing dependencies installed and abiward
> installation was successful, but 
> sudo checkinstall
> didn't work, i.e. installation failed.
> 
> I had to do 
> sudo checkinstall --fstrans=0
> but after successful installation (as checkinstall said) abiword isn't
> opening.
> 
> while running the configure script after downloading the dependencies,
> it said some of the required packages didn't met the version
> requirements. may it have to do anything with this problem( abiword
> not opening).  How am I supposed to prevent apt-get from downloading
> outdated archives?
>   
> 

Why not just install it from synaptic?  It is in the repositories

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Cheers the kiwi