Re: GTK+ 2.99.3 released

[Jaroslav ÅmÃd <jardasmid gmail com>]

On 02/02/2011 09:32 PM, David NeÄas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:47:48PM +0100, Jaroslav ÅmÃd wrote:
> > > I am running ubuntu 10.10 and Gnome 2.32.0.  I am a bit afraid to update
> > > via a install from a tar download because of all the dependence issues
> > > on ubuntu.  Is there a way to update via command line or synaptic?
> >
> > Install gtk2-dev (or something like that). It will install most of
> > required depencies to build new glib and gtk3.
> >
> > After that, download glib, and install like this:
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk3-stuff
> > ...
> >
> > Nothing to be afraid of as long as you install to /opt/gtk3-stuff and
> > not to /usr.
>
> This is a good advice *but* /opt should be replaced with $HOME/opt or
> something similar.  Unless you actually need to test packaging and
> system integration don't do anything as root.  (And even if you perform
> such testing you generally want to do it in chroot or a virtual
> machine that can be safely destroyed.)
>
> Yeti
>
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Who said something about root? Having gtk3-stuff directory in /opt 
doesn't imply using root account to install gtk3. I find it better then 
making mess in my home directory.

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Jaroslav ÅmÃd