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[UPDATE]

As per fkraiem's suggestion below, about the rabbithole (indeed, it does feel like that!), this is the first problem I encounter, and the reason I'm trying to install glib et al.

After running ./configure with pspp-0.10.2:

configure: error: The following required prerequisites are not installed. You must install them before PSPP can be built:

cairo 1.5 or later and pango 1.22 or later (or use --without-cairo)

gthread 2.0 (or use --without-gui)

gtk+ 3.0 version 3.4.2 or later (or use --without-gui)

gtksourceview 3.0 version 3.4.2 or later (or use --without-gui) glib 2.0 version 2.32 or later (or use --without-gui)

Though the Synaptic Package Manager shows I have Cairo 1.14.6-1 installed,

[ORIGINAL POST]

When trying to install glib-2.50.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 I receive the following error -

configure: error: Package requirements (libpcre >= 8.13) were not met:
No package 'libpcre' found

None of the existing posts about this issue provide any solutions.

I have pkg-config installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep pkg-config

ii  libextutils-pkgconfig-perl 1.15-1        all          Perl

interface to the pkg-config utility ii pkg-config 0.29.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 manage compile and link flags for libraries

And have a pckconfig folder in both /usr/lib and /usr/lib/local. Both folders contain:

/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/blas.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/blas-netlib.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-python.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/gsl.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/harfbuzz.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/harfbuzz-icu.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ibus-table.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/lapack.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/lapack-netlib.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcryptsetup.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libffi.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgdiplus.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libquvi-scripts.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libR.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/notify-python.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/pango.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/pangocairo.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/pangoft2.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/pm-utils.pc

Regarding the PKG_CONFIG_PATH

$ pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config

yields

/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib
/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

And

ldconfig -v | grep pcre

yields

/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file or
directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't stat /usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu: No such file
or directory
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than
once
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so is the dynamic
linker, ignoring
        libpcre.so.3 -> libpcre.so.3.13.2       libpcreposix.so.3 ->
libpcreposix.so.3.13.2  libpcre32.so.3 -> libpcre32.so.3.13.2
        libpcre++.so.0 -> libpcre++.so.0.0.0    libpcre16.so.3 ->
libpcre16.so.3.13.2     libpcrecpp.so.0 -> libpcrecpp.so.0.0.1
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so is the dynamic
linker, ignoring

I'm here because I'm trying to install PSPP v0.10.2 of PSPP. The installation guide cautions that:

* pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/).  Versions
  0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
  but other versions should be fine.

But since I'm using 0.29 I assume that bug isn't relevant?

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  • You are trying to install PSPP; are you sure it needs glib 2.50? Have you tried the glib from the Ubuntu repositories? – fkraiem Oct 19 '16 at 09:40
  • Good point. But that's where I don't understand why it's falling apart. It requires GTK+ which won't install: checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... no configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.49.4 atk >= 2.15.1 pango >= 1.37.3 cairo >= 1.14.0 cairo-gobject >= 1.14.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.30.0) were not met:

    No package 'glib-2.0' found No package 'atk' found Package 'glib-2.0', required by 'pango', not found

     – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 09:43
  • Most likely, you just need to install the GTK+ development files from the repositories (package libgtk3-dev). – fkraiem Oct 19 '16 at 09:45
  • I have libgtk3-dev (version 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.1) but still no success – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 10:22
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    It is very unclear what your actual problem is, so please edit your question to describe the first problem you encounter when trying to install PSPP. As it is, it seems you are trying to apply the wrong solution to it. – fkraiem Oct 19 '16 at 10:29
  • I'm running 16.04 here with libpcre3-dev, and pkg-config --modversion libpcre returns 8.38 - I don't understand why you are diving down a rabbithole of locally installed libraries and pkg-config paths – steeldriver Oct 19 '16 at 12:10
  • @steeldriver. pkg-config --modversion libpcre returns:

    Package libpcre was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpcre.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libpcre' found.

     – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 12:45
  • OK so have you installed the appropriate development packages? These are different from (additional to) the runtime library packages i.e. when you say "Synaptic Package Manager shows I have Cairo 1.14.6-1" does that mean libcairo2 or libcairo2-dev 1.14.6-1? – steeldriver Oct 19 '16 at 12:55
  • @steeldriver. Thanks for the comment. Yes, both are installed. – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 13:21
  • So... dpkg seems to indicate that you don't have the pkg-config package installed - yet you are able to run the pkg-config command; when you do, it doesn't appear to be searching the default paths: does this indicate that you installed pkg-config from elsewhere (perhaps from source)? – steeldriver Oct 19 '16 at 14:06
  • @steeldriver. I think so, and I suppose that's the problem. When I updated the repositories to use yakkety main universe I was able to install pspp__0.10.1-2 via synaptic. But what did I do wrong to not be able to extract the pspp tar and install via ./configure ? – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 14:38
  • What version of Ubuntu are you actually using? I'm afraid it sounds like you have made a terrible mess by installing a bunch of unnecessary stuff in unnecessary ways. It's going to be hard to unscramble - especially if you can't remember what you did, exactly. – steeldriver Oct 19 '16 at 14:44
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – lithic Oct 19 '16 at 14:57

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For anyone encountering this question later in time. I've ran into similar problems compiling pspp on ubuntu 16.04. The packages I installed (sudo apt install) to solve the issue were as follows:

sudo apt install libxml2-dev
libcairo2-dev
libreadline-dev
libglib2.0-dev
libgsl-dev
libgtk-3-dev
libgtksourceview-3.0-dev
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