Re: Installing gtk without root access

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw ITS TUDelft NL>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:07:30PM -0700, Ian King wrote:
> Is LD_LIBRARY_PATH available in GNU ld (on linux)?  If I had an older
> version of gtk 1.2 (say 1.2.0) and I wanted to install 1.2.9 without root
> access.  How would I get my application to dynamically use the 1.2.9 shared
> libraries (which would be in my home/gtk/lib directory) without editing
> ld.so.conf (root access needed), or breaking any other applications?

By using LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/my/home/gtk/lib"
does the trick. See "man ld.so" for more information.


Erik

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