On Sunday 22 September 2019 11:41:49 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 21 Sep 2019 at 16:11:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 September 2019 14:41:58 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 21 September 2019 12:41:48 Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 11:41:03AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > This seems to indicate a pkg-config problem: > > > > > > > > > > > > checking for glib... configure: error: no -- required until > > > > > > somebody makes glib optional > > > > > > > > > > > > glib-2 is of course installed but pkg-config apparentlly > > > > > > knows nothing about it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Fix? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks all. > > > > > > > > > > apt install libglib2.0-dev > > > > > > > > ok, got that, then next is gtk. Which sudo apt can't find. > > > > > > For gtk, you probably need libgtk-3-dev. > > > > Wow, pulled in 44 other packages, but didn't help, exit message is: > > > > checking for GTK 2.4.0 or above... no > > configure: error: GTK2 missing. Install it or specify --disable-gtk > > to skip the parts of LinuxCNC that depend on GTK > > > > > > And do we have a package manager that will run on an ssh -Y > > > > login, and give me results sometime this coming week? > > > > Add-remove software isn't it. In an hour I was not able to find > > > > gtk-devel stuff. > > > > > > I find that aptitude works well for everything I need. > > > > And I've had it totally destroy several systems. So I consider it > > dangerous, a tool of absolute last resort. And another 23 packages > > pulled in to install it. > > > > It would take me at least 4 days to recreate this pr4 install > > running this kernel, just to get ready to build linuxcnc. > > > > Aptitude has yet to warn me that installing *this* package will > > damned near format the drive. Until it does, and gives me a way to > > back out, I don't trust it. > > You claimed to type q to quit, rather than confirming the > installation/ removal of packages, using visual mode:
this is true, and that when it removed nearly 350 packages. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00508.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00516.html > > But you didn't really have much idea of what visual aptitude was > asking because you were running it with an unsatisfactory terminal > configuration: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00493.html > > And you were adamant that aptitude could only run in visual mode > with the ncurses TextUI, and not as a CLI: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00501.html > > And, of course, ncurses was then "35-45 years old, […] time it was put > out to pasture". Even xterm was "a waste of hd space, […] usable > […] 30 years ago, but on today's $140 monitors its worthless": > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/06/msg00490.html > > So if you drive a car with your eyes closed, you're not likely > to end up where you wanted to. I think Lisi found you out there. > > Cheers, > David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
