Re: rpm for gtk+ ?

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Jason Robbins writes:
>I'm trying to install gimp (and any requirements) using the rpms
>for gimp and gtk in the contrib directories of the redhat site.
>I seem to be missing something, and have yet to find it on the
>redhat site.
>
>   # rpm -ivh gimp-0.99.14-2.i386.rpm
>     failed dependencies:
>     gtk+ is needed by gimp-0.99.14-2

I don't know who built that RPM, but it's a bad build.  There
should be no reason to depend on a "gtk+" package, they should
just use the normal automatic shared library dependency system
of RPM.

There are packages in the Red Hat devel tree for .99.12 that
should build easily with newer versions.

michaelkjohnson

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