Package installation problem

On Fri, 29 May 2020 08:47:35 +0300

Hi John,
This is a bit off-topic for this mailing list as your issue is a
linux, specifically Fedora, issue, and not R.
I don't use Fedora but I did a quick Google search on

 fedora missing package .pc file

and that came back with a lot of hits. This one in particular should
be a good place to start.
It gives some explanation as to when installation will result in a .pc
file (seems to relate to -dev versions).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33050517/supply-pc-file-for-pkg-config

HTH,
Eric

Thanks Eric.  I wasn't sure where the hick-up was (R or Fedora).  The
library the error message said couldn't be found was right where it
belonged. The first thing I did was check that the *devel file was in
the lib64 directory, and it was. The pc file was the only vagrant, and
it was not on the system at all. I'm going to try to get sense out of
Fedora about this because with "devel" files it should have been.  When
I reinstalled this latest time from the command line, the "pc" file was
placed just as it should have been.

The threads on stackoverflow are four years old, so this has been
around in one form or another for a while.

Again, thanks,
JWDougherty