On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:11:53 -0500, Jozsef Mak <j_mak3@...9...> wrote:
Hi
I am trying to build inkscape 0.40 on Ubuntu from source and during the configuration run i get the message error: Cannot find freetype-config What is freetype-config and how to solve this problem
j.mak
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You'll need the libfreetype6-dev package which you can find using Symantic.
I recently went through this process. Each time the configuration for inkscape fails, just search Symantic for the package. You will need enable the universe repositories to get some of the needed packages.
Cheers,