RE: [gtk-list] Some basic questions

["Arjan J. Molenaar" <arjan xirion nl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Forbes [mailto:jasonforbes@students.wisc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 7:10 AM
> To: gtk-list@redhat.com
> Subject: [gtk-list] Some basic questions
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if these questions are not the normal scope of this list, but I
> didn't get any docs from the mailserver that explain usage of this
> list...
> 
> Anyway, I'm running RedHat 6.1 and gtk+ 1.2.5 was installed from the
> rpms on the redhat install cd. i went to upgrade to 1.2.6 and there
> weren't any rpm files of it, i was wondering if they are available
> anywhere, or if they will be in the future?
> 
> also, i dl'ed the source tar.gz's of 1.2.6 and installed but now it
> seems that both versions are installed on my system. i was 
> wondering how
> i can update everything so that it is all the new version, or 
> uninstall
> the new version so that everything is 'in sync' .. i am unable to
> compile gtk apps because of this (a problem with 2 different 
> versions of
> gtk-config returning different version numbers).. any help would be
> greatly appreciated..
> 

The RPM version is placed in the /usr directories (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.) while the tarball is placed in /usr/local by default. The tarball however contains a .spec file that is used by RPM to create a package. you should check out the man page for the exact parameters to build a package (and probably also a devel-package) from the tar.gz file directly.

Once you have those rpms you can update the old packages using the -U flag.

You can also force uninstallation of the rpm version, but well.. RPM's are just so easy to use... I dont think you want that ;-).

regards,

Arjan

> thanks
> 
> jason
> 
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