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LeGLL
LeGLL

Reputation: 109

Build Emacs on Ubuntu - libraries not found

I am trying to install Emacs v. 26.1. When I run ./configure, I see the following error:

configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
    libXpm libjpeg libgif/libungif libtiff gnutls
Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?

However, they seem to be already there. I tried multiple things, such as:

: ~$ apt-cache search gnutls
gnutls-doc - GNU TLS library - documentation and examples
libcurl3-gnutls - easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library (GnuTLS flavour)
libcurl4-gnutls-dev - development files and documentation for libcurl (GnuTLS flavour)
libgnutls-openssl27 - GNU TLS library - OpenSSL wrapper

and

:~$ sudo apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libcurl4-gnutls-dev is already the newest version (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.6).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 11 not to upgrade.

Things seem fine. What am I missing?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6239

Answers (3)

delmarr
delmarr

Reputation: 131

As stated in the error message, you actually need the development version of these libraries (tested with Emacs v. 27 on Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)):

sudo apt install libxpm-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libgnutls28-dev

Upvotes: 13

LeGLL
LeGLL

Reputation: 109

I ended up doing:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install emacs26

Upvotes: 1

DJJ
DJJ

Reputation: 2549

For completeness,

# Install essential build tools
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Second, download Emacs dependencies:

# Get all dependencies of a previous Emacs version
sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24

./configure
make

Upvotes: 1

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