install - No package 'xrender' found

[Michael Nisgore]

for X11STUFF... configure: error: Package requirements (x11 xext xrender) were not met:

tried to install he xrender lib but that also threw an error:
error: cannot find sources (Xrender.h) in . or ..

so returned to the xsublim error handling which said:
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables X11STUFF_CFLAGS
and X11STUFF_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

but I'm a newbie and don't have a clue what this means or how to do it.
is it possible to build the xrender lib into the xsublim package ???
or perhaps cmd-line example of how to do the above cflags to get it to compile?
thanks

[Michael Nisgore (nisgore)]

oh yah forgot, also using ubuntu 10.0.4 if that helps or makes a difference. :)

[Michael Nisgore (nisgore)]

figured it out, had to add the ppa and repo then sudo apt-get install xsublim then it worked like a charm. :)

[Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch)]

One good way to find out what packages you need if you have the source with a configure script is to use this command:
dpkg-depcheck -d ./configure
If you do this with xsublim you get something like this:
...
Packages needed:
  libglib2.0-0
  mime-support
  libxext-dev
  libxrender-dev
  locales
  libxt-dev
  pkg-config
  libpcre3
  gawk

Some packages are only needed if you want to compile the source your self, like all the *-dev ones I guess...