Let's say you have just finished installing the GIMP and decide you also want to install the GIMP animation package. But while running the configure script you run into this error:

  • checking for GIMP... configure: error: Package requirements (gimp-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gimpui-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gimpthumb-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met:
  • No package 'gimp-2.0' found
  • No package 'gimpui-2.0' found
  • No package 'gimpthumb-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 GIMP_CFLAGS and GIMP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Potential fix:

  • export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"