Re: [nylug-talk] GIMP How to configure????

[David Blackman <david whizziwig com>]

seriously, if you wnat to use the gimp, install from binaries,
installing everything form glib up to gimp is not fun, nor a worthwhile
use of your time (that is if you want an image editing program to use
RSN). 

It may be useful as a learnign experience.

what you probably want is to do './configure --prefix=/usr/local'

also, for later, are your gtk libs in /usr/local/bin? (probably)
then you need to have "/usr/local/bin" in /etc/ld.so.conf and you've run
"ldconfig". 

On a system, especially a newbie one, installing binaries makes your
life easier, makes upgrading/installing/removing packages easier, and
stuff like that. Just a word of advice. I'm sure someone will tell me
how grotesquely wrong I am, and that building from source is the only
way to do it. They're wrong.

--dave


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:43:15PM -0400, joev_nylug mindspring com wrote:
> Thanks for all the help sooooo far, I'm also there.
> 
> I have two files named gtk-config, one located in /usr/local/bin the other is in /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10 (this is where I dowloaded the .tar.gz file). I've pointed the PATH to both locations:
> 
> root joev:/home/joev > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
> root joev:/home/joev > which gtk-config
> /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> root joev:/home/joev > locate gtk-config
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.1
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.1.in
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/docs/gtk-config.txt
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config.in
> /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
> /usr/local/man/man1/gtk-config.1
> root joev:/home/joev > export PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10
> root joev:/home/joev > which gtk-config
> /home/joev/stuff/gtk+-1.2.10/gtk-config
> 
> and the result is still the same:
> 
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.8... no
> *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
> *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to gtk-config.
> configure: error: Test for GTK failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help. 
> 
> What am I doing wrong??
> 
> Thanks Again
> Joe