Re: multiple versions

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Marty J. Rogers" <etothex@eudoramail.com> writes:

> Hello all, I'm a newbie trying to install GTK+ 1.2.3 in order to
> compile additional software packages on my RedHat 5.2 system. I've
> managed to get GTK (and Glib) installed using the standard
> ./configure, make, make install process but when i go to put other
> things on, they complain that the wrong versions of gtk are
> installed. when i check i see the redhat distribution installed rpms
> for GTK and Glib 1.0.3, which I can't seem to replace because
> several other things have dependancies on them. Can anyone offer
> assistance on how to replace the old versions and update the other
> software? Or can the two different versions exist together? Thanks
> for any help,

Grab the gtk+10 RPM (you can find it on ftp.gnome.org), which
provides compatibility libraries for GTK+-1.0. Then install
that together with the new GTK+ RPM's in a single command.

 rpm -Uvh gtk+*.rpm

Regards,
                                        Owen