[Geany-Users] Difficulty installing spellcheck plugin on geany

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Sat Oct 5 12:11:23 UTC 2019


Thanks for your help:  Colomban Wendling & Lex Trotman

It was the: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/geany.pc file.  I deleted it and ran:  PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" ./autogen.sh
I have done the "make --keep-going"  and "make install", there was one error but it didn't appear to relate to sellingcheck, so I did the install.

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 at 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 at 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
    >


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