problems installing Pango-1.30.1

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allynm picture allynm · Sep 25, 2012 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I have encountered a problem installing Pango-1.30 on a Ubuntu 12.04 platform. During ./configure step I receive a message saying "Could not enable any of Freetype, X11, Cairo, or Win32 backends. Must have at least one backend to build Pango". However, I have build and installed Freetype and X11 and they are located in /usr/bin. How do I inform ./configure where to get them?

Thanks, Mark Allyn

Answer

BradStevenson picture BradStevenson · Dec 16, 2012

Ensure you have all the dependencies installed, you can find them in the README file.

They are:

  • fontconfig
  • FreeType
  • HarfBuzz

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