Re: gtk+-1.0.5-2 (RPM), gtk+-1.1.1, & gpgp-0.2

[John Ellis <johne bellatlantic net>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> wrote:

>>   2) Will I be in serious trouble with the depending packages, if I
>>      upgrade from gtk+-1.0.5 to gtk+-1.1.1?
>
>You don't want to upgrade (rpm -U) from 1.0.x to 1.1.x, instead
>you want to install (rpm -i) the 1.1.x packages in addition
>to the 1.0.5 rpm.
>
>You'll have to remove the gtk+-1.0.5 devel package first with
>'rpm -e', since you can't have both development packages
>installed at once.
>
>A warning though - once you do this, you will no longer be able
>to compile programs like the GIMP-1.0.0 which require GTK+-1.0.x,
>though previously compiled executables will continue to work.

If you want to compile again using 1.0.5, just 'rpm -e' glib-devel and
gtk+-devel, and 'rpm -i' gtk+-devel-1.0.5 again. Then to switch back to
compile with 1.1.x, 'rpm -e' gtk+-devel and reinstall the 1.1.x devel
RPMs with 'rpm -i' glib-devel and gtk+-devel. I do this all the time.

So to compile wit 1.0.5 have this installed:
   gtk+-devel-1.0.5

And to compile with 1.1.x:
   glib-devel-1.1.2
   gtk+-devel-1.1.2

Hope this helps,
John
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