Newbie Library Question

[Scott Abbott <go_vols worldnet att net>]

Hello:

I'm a total newbie at all this so please understand.  My question is
about the various libraries like glib and gtk+ that certain applications
require.  If I have a version, say, 1.1.9 and install 1.1.12, can I
uninstall the version 1.1.9?  If so, how do you do this?  I just did a
locate libglib and here's the results:

/usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.11
/usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.11.0.0
/usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.3
/usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/libglib.a
/usr/lib/libglib.la
/usr/lib/libglib.so
/usr/lib/libglib.so.1
/usr/lib/libglib.so.1.0.6
/usr/local/lib/libglib-1.1.so.9
/usr/local/lib/libglib-1.1.so.9.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libglib.a
/usr/local/lib/libglib.la
/usr/local/lib/libglib.so

As you can see, I have several different versions.  Do I need all these
versions?

Thanks.

Scott Abbott