Pango:installation & other issues - Linuxers

17 Apr 2003


      Dear all,
  We are a group of final year B.E.(Computer) students
from VJTI,Mumbai working under 
Prof. Jitendra Shah on Localization project.We are
trying to develop Unicode based input 
method for Devanagari using GTK+ and Pango.Given below
is installation procedure for 
Pango:
* Installing Pango 1.2.1 on rh8.0 from tarball :-
1)Requirements:
    pkgconfig  >=  0.15
    Glib           >= 2.1.3
    Xft             >= 2.0
     first make sure that all these packages are
installed on your system.
     If not, you can always get their latest tarballs
from
    http://www.gtk.org/
   2)next check out whether the file /etc/ld.so.conf
contains an entry /usr/local/lib
   3)run  /sbin/ldconfig from bash
   4)set environment variables
       $export
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
       $export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/var/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:
   5)now you should not have any problem in
installation (use ./configure,make ,make install)
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* Making pango-viewer example work:-
Pango installation directory contains a subdir
'examples' which contains an example program
   illustrating Pango's capability of displaying text
from various scripts.But this program doesn't 
   work directly.You have to follow these steps:
   a. first go to 'example' directory in Pango
installation directory
   b. run 'make' from bash.You'll get an error message
stating some required file is not found in
       '../pango/' directory.Find out the missing file
( using locate,whereis etc.) and copy that file
       to 'pango' directory in Pango installation
directory.
   c. repeat the above step until you get rid of
similar error message.
   d. Next, when you start getting error message
reporting a file missing in 'modules' directory, 
       go to 'modules' directory in  Pango
installation directory.There you will find dirs like
       indic,hebrew,tamil arabic etc.
       One-by-one go to each of these dirs and run
'make'.
Once you finish all these steps successfully, go to
'examples' directory and type
                            ./pango-viewer 
    to see output.
have a nice day.
    Bye.
    Swapnil
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swapnil
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