pkg-config 'too old' (Ubuntu 8.10)???

Hi Florian,

I get:
> henry@henry-heron:~$ type pkg-config
> pkg-config is /usr/local/bin/pkg-config

So you have installed your own version of pkg-config in /usr/local/ overriding the pkg-config installed by Ubuntu.

Remove it (and the other files that belongs to it).

Hi Florian,

Yes, I forgot I did this... I'm trying to remember, do I cd to the
'/usr/local' ? I thought I remembered that you cd to the folder used to
install, but I tried 'sudo apt-get remove' etc... to no avail. If you
could refresh my memory here as to the exact procedure (I did look up
all the apt-get commands I could find in Ubuntu help, & I have done
similar things before, but couldn't find the reference/s thru all my old
emails), I really would be appreciative.

Thanks.

Henry

Florian Diesch wrote:

If you didn't install your version of pkg-config using a .deb file you can't use apt-get to remove it as APT doesn't know anything about it. Instead you have to remove all the files by hand.

If you have the compiled sources you installed pkg-config from still around cd to the source directory and run 'sudo make uninstall'. Otherwise download http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkgconfig-0.14.0.tar.gz, unpack it, cd to its top-level directory and run './configure' and then 'sudo make uninstall'

If you often install self-compiled programs GNU stow may be worth to have a look at.

Using stow you install your program to e.g. /usr/local/stow/pkg-config-0.14 (by using ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/pkg-config-0.14 instead of ./configure).

Then you cd to /usr/local/stow and run 'stow' to automatically create symlinks from /usr/local/stow/pkg-config-0.14/bin/pkg-config to /usr/local/bin/pkg-config etc.

Using 'stow -D' you can remove this symlinks and then delete /usr/local/stow/pkg-config-0.14 if you don't need it anymore.

Thanks much for your help Florian, I found, shortly after I sent my last
message the item you suggest:

If you have the compiled sources you installed pkg-config from still
around cd to the source directory and run 'sudo make uninstall'.

& it worked very well... I then installed pkg-config-0.22-1 via synaptic
package manager. I got glib 2.18 installed but to get the package I was
really after (Ardour 2.7), had to down load 80+ MB of QT4 stuff via dial
up (I'm determined!).

"All is well that ends well." Saith the poet.

Thanks again.

Henry

p.s., I will look into your other suggestions for sure... & one more
question in relation to this, if you have the time: Is this what some
refer to as a "sandbox?" (GNU Stow)

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Your question #56886 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/56886
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Thanks Florian Diesch, that solved my question.