Debian question

[Kurt]

I have my cache list up-to-date. But when i 'apt-get'
for gtk, pango, or glib it just tells me "E: Couldn't
find package xxxx". But I downloaded each of those
(pango, glib, atk, gtk) from www.gtk.org and it was
here that I read that atk, pango, and glib were
required. My immediate problem, is that pango is
looking for this x develpment thing. Is it looking for
fonts? I have done apt-upgrade and this does not solve
anything.

--- Brian D <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you have pkgconfig installed?
> 
>  You might try apt-getting pkgconfig first.
> I'm not sure why apt-get is not pulling all of your
> dependencies. Perhaps some human made a mistake and
> left out a dependency somewhere.
> 
> GTK does not require pango, nor does Glib. In fact
> you
> will need glib before pango. GTK will use pango if
> you
> have it.
> Here is what I would recommend, (not being a debian
> expert.
>  apt-get install pkgconfig (if you don't have it.),
>  apt-get install fontconfig,
>  apt-get install pango,
>  apt-get install gtk.
> 
> You didn't say which package you did apt-get on. But
> I
> am assuming it was pango or gtk. I am guessing that
> pango has a broken dependency somewhere, and that is
> what is causing your problem. You might also need to
> apt-get the X11 package. Again I'm not a debian
> person
> so these are only my guesses based on my general
> understanding of packages. In any case before you
> install anything else I would *strongly* recommend
> installing the pkgconfig package if you haven't
> already.
> 
> HTH,
> Brian
> 
> 
> --- Kurt <kessler2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have two programs that i'd like to install, but
> > need
> > to have GTK+ installed first. Now to install GTK+
> i
> > also have to have Pango, ATK, and Glib.
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > blah, blah, blah 
> > I seem to have problems with Pango. Is there not a
> > simple way to just get GTK+ and have the
> > dependencies
> > automatically updated and installed as well? Ive
> > only
> > been on Debian for about two days now, and its
> kind
> > of
> > stumping me. Debian 3 on Sparc 64. Any help is
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Kurt
> > 
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