[Aptitude-devel] Bug#824340: Unable to find the necessary VTE GTK+ library although its location has been correctly passed

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi,

2016-05-14 17:40 jean-christophe manciot:
>Package: aptitude
>
>Version: 0.8.1
>
>export GTHREAD_LIBS='-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
>export VTE_LIBS='-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
>
>./autogen.sh
>./configure --enable-gtk \
>--enable-qt \
>--enable-reload-cache \
>--enable-resolver-sanity-checks \
>--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
>...
>checking for LIBGLADEMM... yes
>checking for VTE... no
>configure: error: Unable to find the necessary GTK+ libraries.
>...
>while sudo dpkg -S libvte
>libvte-2.91-0:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvte-2.91.so.0

You need the -dev package installed, not that one.

config.log has a more concrete error about what's wrong.

Apart from that, the GTK front-end has been unmaintained and disabled
for a long time, I don't think that it works nowadays.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>