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santanu tripathy
santanu tripathy

Reputation: 69

libxml2,libxml2-dev installed but still fails to configure in ubuntu

I am trying to install lalsuite of LIGO. I installed all the dependencies. While configuring it is giving the following error for lalxml.

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes  
checking for LIBXML2... no  
checking for xmlInitParser in -lxml2... yes  
checking libxml/tree.h usability... no  
checking libxml/tree.h presence... no  
checking for libxml/tree.h... no  
configure: error: could not find the libxml/tree.h header  
configure: error: ./configure failed for lalxml

I am using ubuntu 16.04LTS and the installed libxml2 version is 

libxml2 is already the newest version (2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7155

Answers (1)

Lasith Niroshan
Lasith Niroshan

Reputation: 1083

First remove old version.

sudo apt remove --purge libxml2 libxml2-dev (Warning: this will uninstall all packages that are dependent on libxml) Then update

sudo apt update

Finally install again.

sudo apt install libxml2 libxml2-dev

Upvotes: -1

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