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Re: Bicon installation



On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:27:47PM -0800, maysara a wrote:
> salam , 
> 
> i faced some difficulties installing bicon on my
> system , probably its because im a newbie , but any
> way heres some details:
> 
> system:
> 
> Mandrake 10.1 community  2.6.8.1-10mdksmp
> fribidi 0.10.4 interface version 2 Unicode version
> 3.2.0 was already installed on the system
> 
> 
> i tried to install bicon on my mandrake 10.1 , and on
> checking for fribidi >= 0.10.4... i got "Package
> fribidi was not found in the pkg-config search path."
> and that i should make env variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> point fribidi.pc location , but i found no fribidi.pc
> file on my system and had to get one from nadim (thanx
> nadim) , then i had to get the fribidi sorce code
> although i had fribidi installed on the system , but
> not the src , and had to edit fribidi.pc by hand to
> get it working ... i dont think things should be that
> complicated :) did  i miss configure anything that
> could cause all that ? 
> 
> *please include that fribidi src is needed not fribidi
> itself (correct me if im wrong).
> 
> regards
> 
> maysara a a 
> 

install fribidi development headers via 
urpmi fribidi-devel

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