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GD- Ganesh Deshmukh
Asked: 2018-04-07 11:25:39 +0800 CST

./autogen not working on Ubuntu to install watchman for react-native

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I am trying to install watchman in Ubuntu 17.10, to run npm run android in command line to run React-Native in terminal.

I have tried sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake build-essential python-dev,

then when I run ./autogen.sh, it throws this error:

./autogen.sh 
pkg-config appears to be missing (not available to autoconf tools)
please install the pkg-config package for your system.
software-installation compiling 17.10 android-emulator

2 Answers

  1. Had similar problem and turns out that I was missing some binaries and that needed to run the watchman scripts as root. Here is a shorts script that I used to get everything working:

    # install watchman
sudo apt install -y libssl-dev autoconf automake libtool build-essential python-dev
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git
cd watchman
git checkout v4.9.0  # the latest stable release
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

# linux specific watchman configs
watchman --version
# increasing the watcher limits (need to do every time machine starts up)
echo 999999 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches && \
echo 999999 | sudo tee -a  /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_queued_events && \
echo 999999 | sudo tee  -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances && \
# restart server
watchman shutdown-server
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  2. I had similar problem. I install pkg-config, then it is solved

    sudo apt install pkg-config

    Accept the installation by typing Y or y

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