Getting Babl and Gegl installed from src was easy but I'm stuck which seems to be a common issue so here's my issue.

[quote] checking for BABL... no
configure: error: Package requirements (babl >= 0.1.11) were not met:

Requested 'babl >= 0.1.11' but version of babl is 0.1.10 [/quote]

I removed babl the second I started compiling from source, but if you go to the babl's git page you will see 0.1.10 is the latest commit, and there is no 0.1.11 so how do I fix this common error?

It's been awhile since I've used linux, I stopped caring from compiling from source but this is one of the few applications I'd ever compile from source.

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 by the way, same issue with Gentoo and Arch Linux.

here's my gimp install process.

Babl git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-git
make -j3
sudo checkinstall --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --pkgversion=0.1.10-git Gegl
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl
cd gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-git
ck. results, add -dev's as desired, see hints below, then run (if any added -dev's
./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-git
make -j3
sudo checkinstall --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --pkgversion=0.2.0-git Gimp
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gimp
cd gimp
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-git
make -j9

sudo checkinstall --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --pkgversion=2.10 --pkgname=gimp-git

Help please^^;

No way this will succeed.
I checked but there's simply no babl-0.1.11 available. After you've compiled something in Linux it will install a *.pc file in /usr/lib/pkgconfig. In the case of babl it would be babl.pc. It's a text file and contains ao the version number in this case "version: 0.1.10. Without the right babl version forget about compiling gimp-2.10. I'd be interested myself to do this but no babl with version 0.1.11 no go. Gerard.

gerard82 (forums@gimpusers.com) wrote:

[quote]
checking for BABL... no
configure: error: Package requirements (babl >= 0.1.11) were not met:

[...]

No way this will succeed.
I checked but there's simply no babl-0.1.11 available.

If you're compiling Gimp from Git then you also need to use gegl and babl from git.

Bye,
Simon

simon@budig.de              http://simon.budig.de/

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Rukiri wrote:

Babl
git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
cd babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gimp-git
make -j3
sudo checkinstall --backup=no --deldoc=yes --fstrans=no --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --pkgversion=0.1.10-git

Um - isn't your 'pkgversion' flag explicitly setting the babl version to 0.1.10? It's been a while since I used checkinstall, so I could be wrong though.

Chris