Package vips was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

node --version

v0.10.25

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config glib2.0-dev libxml2-dev

sudo apt-get install libvips

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libvips37' instead of 'libvips'
Recommended packages:
  nip2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libvips37
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.

npm install sharp

// ....

> node-gyp rebuild

Package vips was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vips.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vips' found
gyp: Call to 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=":$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig" pkg-config --libs vips' returned exit status 1. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:431:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-24-generic
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/mt/nodejs/imgtest/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[lovell]

Hello, the libvips-dev package includes the vips.pc file required by pkgconfig.

The mention of libvips37 suggests the use of Ubuntu 14.04, which provides v7.38.x via apt. The minimum libvips version required is v7.40.0 (vips -v will provide the installed version) so the preinstall.sh script may help.

[canebat]

Oops, no I didn’t! Thanks.