Re: midnight commander installation issues

[Roland Illig <roland illig gmx de>]

Manjunath Karekal wrote:
> Hi all,
> Am trying to install midnightcommander 4.6.1-pre1 on a newly built qmail
> server.  Getting the following error.
>
> No package 'glib-2.0' found
> checking for glib-config... no
> checking for glib12-config... no
> checking for glib-config... no
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.6... no
> *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
> *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to glib-config.
> configure: error: Test for glib failed.
> GNU Midnight Commander requires glib 1.2.6 or above.
>
> It says requires glib 1.2.6 or above but glib-2.4.8 is installed.  what is
> the procedure for installing Midnight commander.

What's the output of the command "type -a glib-config"?

If the output is empty, maybe you need to install a package called 
glib-devel or glib-dev.

Roland