Re: Trying to install GTK

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Warren Sypteras wrote:

> > > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> > > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.1,
> > > but GLIB (2.0.6)
> > > *** was found!

> I tried doing an rpm -e on the older installed glib but it
> won't remove due to several other packages depending on
> it.

If you really want to use 2.2.1, you'd be best to install it so as to
overwrite the 2.0.6 that's on your system.  You'll be out of sync with
your rpm database, but everything should work.

As Owen Taylor suggested, configure glib and gtk with --prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc.

It's quite easy to have gtk 1.2 and gtk 2.0 "peacefully coexist" on
your system, but you'd really have to know what you're doing to have
parallel installations of 2.0.6 and 2.2.1.  And there's no reason to
do so, because 2.2.1 is binary compatible with 2.0.6.

Allin Cottrell.