Hi I have a Ubutnu system . I installed libxml2 and libvirt packages by : apt-get install ibvirt-bin and .. libxml2 . They were installed ok . The libraries are located under /user/lib e.g : /usr/lib/libvirt.so.0 I am trying to link as follows: CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags libvirt` LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs libvirt` gcc -o test_cpu $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS test_cpu.c But get the message : Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libvirt' found It turns out that doing : pkg-config --list-all | grep libvirt return no libvirt traces . just as in the file below . On another older machine that links fine - libvirt is found with the above pkg-config but there is no PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable as well . Both machines PATH is the same . Did I miss something during the install of the first machine. Any remedy ? Zvi Dubitzky Virtualization and System Architecture Email:dubi@il.ibm.com IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL