[libvirt] Installing libvirt 0.8.7 Ubuntu 9.10

[Laurent Léonard]

Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 12:06:00, Marcela Castro León a écrit :
> Hello:
> I'm installing libvirt 0.8.7 on Ubuntu 9.10 to work at a project at
> Autonomous University.
> But when make ./configure, I've got:
> 
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for XMLRPC... no
> checking for LIBXML... no
> checking libxml2 xml2-config >= 2.6.0 ... configure: error: Could not find
> libxml2 anywhere (see config.log for details).
> 
> But I've libxml2 installed on mu system
> 
> marcela at santacruz:~/libvirt/libvirt-0.8.7$ dpkg -l | grep libxml2
> ii  libxml2
> 2.7.5.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2                      GNOME XML library
> ii  libxml2-utils
> 2.7.5.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2                      XML utilities
> ii  python-libxml2
> 2.7.5.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2                      Python bindings for the GNOME
> XML library
> 
> 
> 
> The config.log mention No package 'libxml-2.0', but this libary doesn't
> exit.
> 
> I've attach this log to further information.
> 
> Can you tell me how to follow?
> Thank you.

"libxml2" is a dependency of binary libvirt packages. To be able to build 
libvirt, you have to install development files for that library (libxml2-dev).

I just uploaded libvirt 0.8.7-1 to Debian, since Ubuntu libvirt package are 
merged with Debian libvirt packages I assume it will work fine without changes 
on Ubuntu. Just take a look here:
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libvirt-bin
Only amd64 architecture is available for now, but the other architectures will 
be available in the following hours.

If you really want to build libvirt by hand, you can take a look here and 
check the build dependencies:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-
libvirt/libvirt.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=193b45efe24d624eb0b3ae3fb5613a15ad97156b;hb=refs/heads/experimental

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Laurent Léonard