Re: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6

[Feng Yu <rainwoodman gmail com>]

take a look at rpm -q gtk2,

or
yum install gtk2-devel

I guess FC6 already has a GTK2 installed.


Yu

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Adeel Malik <adeelmalik78 yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>         I am doing application development on Fedora Core 6 Linux machine
> which had GTK version 1.2.1 already installed. I needed to use g_timer_add
> gnome function in my gtk application which doesn't seem to be supported on
> this version. So i tried to install the newer version of GTK+-2.0.0 from the
> gtk.org web page.
> Once I copied tar.gz file and tried to install the app. by running the
> './configure' script, the insatallation process stopped at the following
> error messages:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.12.3, but GLIB (2.4.0)
> *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
> *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the
> error
> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
> *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
> *** required on your system.
> *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> *** to point to the correct configuration files
> no
> configure: error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  I treid to update the glib library by running:
>
> 'yum update glib'  or 'yum install glib' but it appeared that kernel
> couldn't find the  match and issued the following messages:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Could not find update match for glib
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I was wondering whether the problem is with the 'yum' package as it is
> unable to find the requested Glib library. Since the whole point of
> installing the new version of GTK was to be able to use the 'g_timer_add'
> function, can some one suggest if it is possible to use this function with
> the GTK 1.2.1 version. If not, can someone point out how can I fix the
> installation error if GTK+-2.0.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Adeel
>
>
>
>
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