[Gimp-user] problems resolving dependencies such as GEGL and BABL

[psynwavez <forums gimpusers com>]

i've tried several avenues, most recently making and/or ./configure the archives
downloaded from

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1936

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/babl

to no avail.

 - Error: missing dependency babl >= 0.1.46
  - Error: missing dependency gegl-0.3 >= 0.3.34
  - Error: missing dependency glib >= 2.54.2
      *** Test for GLIB failed
  - Error: missing dependency fontconfig >= 2.12.4
  - Error: missing dependency gexiv2 >= 0.10.6
  - Error: missing dependency libmypaint >= 1.3.0
  - Error: missing dependency mypaint-brushes-1.0
  - PyCairo 1.0.2 or newer
      *** Please install it, or skip building the python scripting extension by
      *** passing --disable-python to configure (but then you will not be able
      *** to use scripts for GIMP that are written in Python).

any help is appreciated.

im using Debian 9.4

thanks in advance

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