Building graphviz from source on Ubuntu (to add gts triangulation library)

[josephrocca]

When installing on ubuntu (16.04.2) with sudo apt install graphviz, I get the following error when trying to use sfdp:

Error: remove_overlap: Graphviz not built with triangulation library

After some searching I found out that it's because graphviz was built with --without-gts (launchpad bug report). So I set about trying to build it myself (I'm new to this).

I followed the following procedure (from this SO answer):

1. run sudo apt install libgts-dev
2. run sudo pkg-config --libs gts
3. run sudo pkg-config --cflags gts
4. Download graphviz-2.40.1.tar.gz from here
5. Extract and run sudo ./configure --with-gts --prefix ~ in the folder
6. Run sudo make in the folder
7. Run sudo make install in the folder

After doing that I can successfully use some commands (dot, fdp), but not others (sfdp, neato). I get /usr/bin/sfdp: No such file or directory when trying to use sfdp, for example. Can anyone see anything wrong with my procedure? Thanks!

[josephrocca]

I'm not sure what I did, but I somehow got it working (at least, all looks good so far). For others having this problem, try:

• Restarting your computer
• Before installing, making sure you've ran sudo apt purge graphviz (and sudo make uninstall if you're retrying building from source)
• Make sure you're using sudo for installing
• Have a look at the output of sudo ./configure --with-gts --prefix ~ - at the end it'll tell you which commands/options are available given the dependencies that you have.

Good luck!

[graphviz]

Hi - in case it helps, I’ll add that I routinely build graphviz using my own non-privileged user ID and install in my home directory. Most (all) of the external packages graphviz needs are installed in /usr/local in my case using Mac homebrew. XQuartz is installed too. The configure looks like CC=clang CXX=clang++ AR=/usr/bin/ar LIBTOOL=glibtool ./configure CFLAGS='-Wl,-no_pie -g -O0 ' CXXFLAGS='-Wl,-no_pie -g -O0' --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib --with-extraincludedir=/usr/local/opt/gettext/include --prefix=/Users/north --with-cairopango --x-includes=/opt/X11/include --x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib --with-ann=yes --disable-php --enable-static Some of this may be superfluous but it works. I think there the Xcode based tools like clang and the GNU based tools like glibtool do not see totally eye-to-eye. If you are having problems with this, maybe there is something in an environment variable like PATH or CFLAGS that is pointing to the wrong copy of some package that was previously installed. In my case I already have another copy of graphviz installed via homebrew that doesn’t interfere with my personal build. Stephen North

[dustinmichels]

This thread was very helpful to me! For anyone else having trouble, I'll just note that my exact steps were:

1. Remove any existing installation with conda uninstall graphviz. (If you did not install with Conda, you might need to do sudo apt purge graphviz and/or pip uninstall graphviz).
2. run sudo apt install libgts-dev
3. run sudo pkg-config --libs gts
4. run sudo pkg-config --cflags gts
5. Download graphviz-2.40.1.tar.gz from here
6. Navigate to directory containing download, and extract with tar -xvf graphviz-2.40.1.tar.gz (or newer whatever the download is named.)
7. cd into extracted folder (ie cd graphviz-2.40.1) and run sudo ./configure --with-gts
8. Run sudo make in the folder
9. Run sudo make install in the folder
10. Reinstall library using pip install graphviz

[blaiseli]

@dustinmichels What are the pkg-config commands for?

[ellson]

pkg-config is a facility for getting info, during make of my package, about the CFLAGS and LIBS required to include headers and link to another packages libs. packages that provide shared libraries that are intended for use by other projects should provide pkg-config info. pks-config info is stored in *.pc files in a well-known place (on Fedora: /usr/lib64/pkgconfig ) or anywhere in a PHG-CONFIG-PATH

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