Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> writes:

[snip]
> checking for libxslt... no
> Package libxslt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
> you should add the directory containing `libxslt.pc' to the
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libxslt' found
> configure: error: Library requirements (libxslt) not met; consider
> adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries
> are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
> Libxslt was not one of the packages that were installed when I ran the
> apt-get build-dep.

Correct, because it is a new requirement in the current code; it was not
a requirement for the previous version.  However the apt-get build-dep
will get you 95% of the way there.

Then you'll just need to iterate:

1) run configure
2) install whatever configure complains is missing
3) repeat until configure passes

-derek

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