I believe you need the Cairo "-dev" package. I.e. libcairo-Dev and the same for the pango package, and any others configure complains about. Also a useful meta package is build-essential, which will pull the c and c++ compilers and core -Dev packages such as glibc-Dev (if that specific one exists, memory fails me)
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On 31 Mar 2012, at 13:54, "Rob Malpass" <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have asked a similar question before but please bear with me - I'm sort of making progress but still not quite there...
>
> I'm trying to compile a tarball from source. The problem I'm having is
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> ./configure
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> is crashing saying I need cairo1.5 or later and pango1.5 or later. So I headed for synaptic, installed them and reran configure. Same error.
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> I've never been too hot on this facet of Linux - do I need to do anything else having installed the package libcairo to "register" it such that ./configure can see it?
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> I suspect I'm missing a fundamental step here but I can't think what it is.
>
> The background to this is I'm trying to run a stats package called pspp. The problem is that installing it via synaptic gives me a very old version with very little functionality. The developers are doing this deliberately and the latest version is available as tarball binary and tarball source. The binary version doesn't seem to work (in a much as I get executable files which don't run) but according to the mailing list - much more emphasis is on building from source.
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> Constructive ideas very welcome
>
> Rob
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
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