> When I restart geany, it doesn't include Spellingcheck in the "Tools
> > Plugin Manager" menu. Is that normal after doing the plugins
> install?
>
> Regards Garthur
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:47 PM Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> The problem is pkg-config can't find geany.pc. How did you install
> Geany? What is the output of `pkg-config geany`? If its nothing, then
> you need to find where the install put the package config file
> (geany.pc) since it isn't in the default places pkg-config searches
> on your system. Then you need to follow the advice the error message
> gave and set the environment variable or specify --prefix and
> --with-geany-libdir.
>
> Cheers Lex
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 19:28, Garthur via Users
> <users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> to Users I have been trying to install the spellcheck plugin, and I
>> am finding it quite hard. I have got to the point of downloading
>> the github zip file at: https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins and
>> running autogen.sh. This fails saying I have version 1.27 but I
>> have version 1.35. Here are the printouts: (I am running xenialpup
>> (xenial64_7-5-5 puppylinux)) Difficulty installing spellcheck
>> plugin on geany
>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>
>>
> type -a geany
>> geany is /usr/local/bin/geany
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>
>>
> /usr/local/bin/geany -V
>> geany 1.35 (git >= bf5c9ed) (built on 2019-01-31 with GTK 2.24.30,
>> GLib 2.48.2)
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>
>>
> ./autogen.sh
>> You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. autoreconf:
>> Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I build/cache -I build -I
>> build/bundled -I geanypy/m4 --install autoreconf: configure.ac:
>> tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force {... ....Not
>> included........ ...} checking for msgfmt... (cached)
>> /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt
>> accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
>> checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext checking for
>> catalogs to be installed...  be ca da de el es fr gl it ja kk nl pt
>> pt_BR ru tr zh_CN checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for
>> GEANY... no configure: error: Package requirements (geany >= 1.29)
>> were not met:
>>
>> Requested 'geany >= 1.29' but version of Geany is 1.27
>>
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEANY_CFLAGS
>> and GEANY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the
>> pkg-config man page for more details.
>>
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>
>>
> uname -a
>> Linux xenial64-sda1 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT
>> 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>
>>
>
>> Should I report this as a bug?
>>
>> Regards Garthur