No package 'cairo' found

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and trying to compile libgdiplus (following instructions at http://www.lovesmesomecode.com/20130719-compiling-mono-3-in-ubuntu/) in preparation to install NZBdrone.

Error occurs when running ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local. (I followed all instructions prior to this.) The instructions on this command say:

This will configure the compilation process and ensure your computer has all the proper libaries and dependencies installed. If you ran everything above, you should be good to go. If it fails on an error and indicates you are missing a libary or package, you may need to install a development version of that package, and then try to run the command again.

The error I receive says:

checking for CAIRO... no

configure: error: Package requirements (cairo >= 1.6.4) were not met:

No package 'cairo' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables CAIRO_CFLAGS and CAIRO_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I found instructions at another place for installing cairo, so I tried running the command to install cairo. I also found instructions for installing libgdiplus and tried installing using 'sudo apt-get install libgdiplus.'

But each time I come back and run './autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local', I get the same error message that cairo could not be found.

Thanks for any help you might provide.

You installed the wrong package (that one is a dock, and you are looking for one that is a graphics library). You can get the development files of Cairo using

$ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

In general when you are compiling some software and it asks for package XYZ, you can try if you have any package named XYZ-dev or libXYZ-dev

If you get further errors update your question.