If you receive the below error on a CentOS Linux server while configuring, compiling, or installing an application then you most likely need to install the development package for libxml2.

Error:configure: error: cannot find xml2-config

The package that includes xml2-config is libxml2-devel which can be installed via yum using the syntax below.

yum install libxml2-devel

The below shows what the output on a CentOS Linux server would look like while install libxml2-devel.

[root@dev istat-0.5.3]# yum install libxml2-devel
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libxml2-devel.i386 0:2.6.26-2.1.2.7 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
libxml2-devel i386 2.6.26-2.1.2.7 base 2.1 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 2.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): libxml2-devel-2.6. 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB 00:02
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: libxml2-devel ######################### [1/1]

Installed: libxml2-devel.i386 0:2.6.26-2.1.2.7
Complete!

Once installed run your configure, compile, or install script again and you should not receive the same error message.

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