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I'm getting this error when trying to do an install and build (Ubuntu 10.10):

 checking for DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (
     gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
      pygtk-2.0
      x11
  ) were not met:

  No package 'pygtk-2.0' found

  Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
  installed software in a non-standard prefix.

  Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
  and DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
  See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I've tried pointing PKG_CONFIG_PATH both to pkg-config and to the directory that holds all of the .pc files (/usr/share/pkg-config). The man page for pkg-config doesn't mention DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS or DEPENDENCIES_LIBS. I'm at a bit of a loss. I've tried using aptitude to install everything I could find which involved the letters "gtk" to no avail.

Any suggestions? I would really prefer to use aptitude, apt-get or dpkg to solve this if at all possible. I haven't tried rebuilding those packages from source.

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What're you trying to build ? – Sathya♦ Nov 15 '10 at 16:04
I've been having difficulties with my Guake install, so I was hoping to install from source so that I could (possibly) debug it. – cwallenpoole Nov 15 '10 at 18:43
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I suspect you want

apt-get build-dep guake

This installs all the packages you need to compile guake. Then you can do

apt-get source guake
cd guake-*/
# edit, patch, ...
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b -nc
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That worked like a champ. I will up-vote this when I get the reputation. – cwallenpoole Nov 15 '10 at 21:03
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What is the output of this command?

dpkg --get-selections | grep pygtk

How about the same for x11?

It looks sort of as if you're trying to install a package that wants x11 when you have xorg installed, but I haven't tested that.

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I don't understand your answer. There's no direct relationship between Debian/Ubuntu package names and pkg-config names. And xorg is the implementation of x11 on Ubuntu and just about everywhere. – Gilles Nov 15 '10 at 20:48
dpkg --get-selections | grep gtk says I have python-gtk2 which is, as best as I can tell, the most current descendant. But, apt-get build-dep guake worked. Thanks. – cwallenpoole Nov 15 '10 at 21:05
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