From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; To: Gretl list <gretl-users(a)ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu&gt; Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:34:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Installing gretl from source On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Talha Yalta wrote: > I was fed up with all the windows stuck inside a single desktop > so I decided to try installing gretl snapshot in my newly > installed Kubuntu Dapper system. I am not very experienced in > compiling software on my own and here is what happened: > > After running ./configure everything goes fine except one error message: > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in > *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the > *** full path to gtk-config. Hmm. The "gtk-config" script is the configuration mechanism for gtk version 1.2, which is very old by now. On a reasonably up-to-date system one would expect to find gtk 2.0, and it does its configuration using the pkg-config program. I suspect that gretl's "configure" is falling back on gtk-1.2 because it can't find the relevant gtk-2.0 files (and then failing, of course). I recommend trying this command: pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 (note the slightly odd string "gtk+-2.0"). If this command doesn't succeed, the "devel" packages for gtk 2.0 are presumably not installed. They probably shouldn't be hard to find. Congratulations on joining the compiling club! I trust the initial problems should be sorted out without too much grief. Allin Cottrell