Re: [gtk-list] GLIB AND GTK INSTALLATIOn GONE MAD....

[Michael Dartt <mad96 hampshire edu>]

If you have root (and it sounds like you do), I'd highly recommend using
an RPM instead, which can be found in the binaries/ directory on the ftp
servers, IIRC.

If you're running Mandrake and have the glib and gtk .tar.gz files, you
can also do the following:

% su

# rpm -ta --target=i386 glib-1.2.6.tar.gz

[wait....]

# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/glib-*

# rpm -ta --target=i386 gtk+-1.2.6.tar.gz

[wait...]

# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/gtk+-*


That should do it.  Personally, I favor RPMs (or some form of packaging)
for darn near everything--*much* less hassle.


--Mike
 

Tosin Osinubi wrote:
> 
> Could any provide their assistance to my problem, I am trying to install
> gimp
> 1.1.13 upon my linux workstation, I have 1.1.9 on win98, but want it on
> linux, but so far it wasn't gone well at all, in fact I'm still at the
> stage,
> of trying to install gtk 1.2.6 after installing glib-1.2.6 .
> 
> The problem is that the ./configure part of installing gtk is giving me
> errors that I can't make any sense of.
> 
> 1) I first installed a source distribution of glib-1.2.6, apparently nothing
> went wrong, I didn't receive any error messages, I then went on and
> uninstalled my binary distribution of glib 1.1.3 through kpackage, (which I
> probably should had gone first, but had hopes that the install would
> overwrite any previous installation), and then executed ldconfig
> 
> 2) Then I tried to install gtk-1.2.6, and that was where all the trouble
> began,  I kept on getting on errors like "the glib-config file says 1.2.6,
> but 1.2.3 was found" or "cannot find glib-config", "GLIB was not installed
> properly, or moved" until I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH  variable was set to
> /usr/local/lib and the GLIB_CONFIG variable was set to
> /usr/localbin/glib-config, and then I stopped receiving that error and a new
> one appeared
> 
> The latest error is "X libraries or include files not found."  Please help.
> 
> I am running Linux-Mandrake 6.5, if you need to know.
> 
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