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While trying to install module Chart::Clicker, we get the following error with Cairo:

Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
at Makefile.PL line 99
*** can not find package cairo >= 1.0.0
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PA
+TH
at Makefile.PL line 99

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I'm confused by what I'm seeing. Is this saying Cairo (upper case) can't install because 'cairo' (lower case) can't be found? pkg-config doco didn't help much - does it want me to create the .pc file based upon what's README says?

I had no issue installing this module on a linux box using CPAN (the above is occurring under UNIX). PERL 5.14.2, BTW.

This also bombs when attempting automated CPAN install.

In reply to Module install issue - Cairo by PeeLoo

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