[PLUG] config error message interpretation help, please

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:53, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:

> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> No package 'libsoup-2.4' found
> No package 'gconf-2.0' found

as rogan suggested, this frequently means you are missing -dev
versions of packages.

i never use synaptic so i cannot help you there, but here's what i'd
do from the command line:

# (1) you probably have glib2 installed already.  so, search the
installed packages for anything with the string 'glib' in their name:
dpkg -l | grep glib

you'll find a lot, but you're looking for the one that is glib, not
something for or involving glib, if that makes any sense.  on my
system, it's:

ii  libglib2.0-0                         2.28.6-0ubuntu1
             The GLib library of C routines

and what you want is to find the dev version:

# (2) search all available packages for ones whose names contain
glib2, and then try to filter down to just -dev packages

apt-cache search glib2 | grep -- -dev

i get 3 hits, but the obvious winner is:

libglib2.0-dev - Development files for the GLib library

# (3) install the development package:

sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev


you may not have some of those packages installed - say you are
missing libsoup (you try step (1) with soup instead of glib2 and come
up empty).  then skip straight to (2):

apt-cache search soup | grep -- -dev

...
libsoup2.4-dev - an HTTP library implementation in C -- Development files
...

and then executing 3 will automatically pull in the base package for
you - if it's needed to use the dev package, which is usually the
case:

sudo aptitude install libsoup2.4-dev


hope that helps!