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I'm currently trying to learn Vala, but it fights me right from the start. I've basically copied the first Basic Sample found here.

I'm trying to build it using this command:

 valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 <filename>.vala

but I'm constantly getting this error message:

Package atspi-2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `atspi-2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'atspi-2', required by 'atk-bridge-2.0', not found
error: pkg-config exited with status 256
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

I have no idea what any of this means nor how to fix this.

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  • "Package 'atspi-2', required by 'atk-bridge-2.0', not found", a fast apt-cache search led me to gir1.2-atspi-2.0 . I have researched this issue but it might be worth trying: sudo apt-get install gir1.2-atspi-2.0 In case of success I'll add it as an answer.
    – John Guerreiro
    Jul 26 '15 at 22:29
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This seems to be a known bug of pkgconf v0.9.4-1 (currently installed on Freya) that has been fixed in v0.9.5-1.

Link

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    Okay, I read that report and saw a reference to libatspi2.0-dev. Judging by the description when it was reported, I just installed it and I'm not getting that error anymore.
    – r3bl
    Jul 26 '15 at 23:01
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Okay, so the solution was installing libatspi2.0-dev using:

sudo apt-get install libatspi2.0-dev

This was all that I needed to do to stop receiving these errors. After that, everything works great.

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