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chidori
chidori

Reputation: 1112

Cairo Perl module installation issue

I am trying to install Cairo Perl module locally, but it is throwing me error. 

$ /testdir/bin/perl -I /testdir/perl-5.14.0/lib Makefile.PL
Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
 at Makefile.PL line 99
*** can not find package cairo >= 1.0.0
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 at Makefile.PL line 99

I can go as suggested by the installer but I am not finding the file called cairo.pc in the installation package. Not sure what I am missing here. Please help me out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1667

Answers (2)

Chankey Pathak
Chankey Pathak

Reputation: 21676

I faced the same issue, seeing Quentin answer it's clear that you need to install Cairo first. I did the below and Cairo got installed successfully.

For Debian and Debian derivatives including Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

For Fedora:

sudo yum install cairo-devel

For openSUSE:

zypper install cairo-devel

Now install the Perl module

cpan Cairo

or

cpanm Cairo

Upvotes: 0

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943625

The module only contains the Perl bindings for Cairo. You'll need to have the C library (with the C headers) installed first, otherwise there is nothing for those bindings to bind to.

http://cairographics.org/download/ is a good place to start for working out where to get those from (it varies depending on your OS).

Upvotes: 2

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