On Mon, November 10, 2008 10:37 am, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

>> I'nm trying to install backlevel rrdtool but get a missing
>> freetype2.pc [1]
>
> Does your distribution not have a precompiled package? I know
> Debian and Ubuntu have rrdtool packages.

Erik, thanks

I think it does ?

# rrdtool --v
RRDtool 1.2.28  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
               Compiled Oct 31 2008 02:31:17

# whereis rrdtool
rrdtool: /usr/bin/rrdtool /usr/share/rrdtool /usr/share/man/man1/rrdtool.1.gz

however, I need to install a backlevel rrdtool


>> I've found I have
>> # locate freetype2.pc
>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
>>
>>
>> how do I 'set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to point to its location' ?
>> is that on a  './configure' line, or, does it get set in some file ?
>
> You shouldn't need to because the one you have is already in a standard
> location. Do
>
> pkg-config --list-all | grep freetype
>
> and it should be listed.

what do I need to get ncurses ?

# pkg-config --list-all | grep freetype
Package ncurses was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ncurses.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'ncurses', required by 'OpenIPMIui', not found

-- 
Voytek

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