Comments on: Installing Graphviz Dot Without Root Access

By: kwevej

kwevej — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:00:43 +0000

There is a solution even if your libtool is old:

Download libtool sources & compile it.
prepend libtool to the PATH
( export PATH=/home/blabla/libtool-2.4/:$PATH )
don’t forget the make clean before compiling again

By: Joonas

Joonas — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:41:12 +0000

Thanks mate! I got the same error when configuring with just “./configure –prefix=$HOME” and using libtool 1.5.22 (Dec 2005). I can’t say I understand why, but it worked fine with your configure options. Or perhaps the reason was that I didn’t clean up the previous configuration properly the first time I tried…

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:23:18 +0000

The libtool error took me a while to figure out (and googling sadly doesn’t help).

If you can’t upgrade libtool, you’re kind of stuck

For future googlers:

make clean # Vital to remove the old makefiles.
./configure –prefix=$HOME/local # It seems important to avoid ending the path with a /!