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

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:59 AM psynwavez <forums gimpusers com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> psynwavez (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
> _______________________________________________
>
> Are you familiar with building packages? If not, I suggest you download
the AppImage to play with.

Otherwise, what is the output of the following command:
 pkg-config --modversion babl
?