[clug] Package Installation

[Damien Elmes]

Matt Howe <mdhowe at bigfoot.com> writes:

> Sorry to ask such a basic question but i'm fairly new to linux and find the
> whole tarball installation thing a bit confusing, anyway heres the output i
> got from ./configure, the necesarry libraries seem to be installed but it
> can't seem to find them. Any suggestions???

Note that on lots of distros, the packages necessary for developing with some
library are separate from the packages required to just use that library. On
debian for instance, you'd have to say:

apt-get install libggi2-dev

Cheers,
-- 
Damien Elmes