Re: very basic question about glib

[Brandon McCombs <brandon ovnet com>]

Paul Singleton wrote:
> 
> Hello.  As you'll soon see, I'm a newbie.  I installed Caldera eDesktop 2.4
> and I think it's really cool.
> 
> Seeking to free myself from the grips of Microsoft,  I'm trying to find
> Windows-equivalent tools for Linux.  The first one was an ftp app.  I found
> gFTP.
> 
> gFTP uses gtk+ so I needed to install glib1.2.8 and gtk1.2.8.  Sounded easy
> enough.  Seeking to learn, I avoided the rpms and went for the source.  I
> downloaded everything.
> 
> I extracted each of the three archives into their own folders under
> home/paul/desktop and followed instructions:
> glib says to go into the directory, type './configure' then 'make' then
> 'make install'
> 
> that was easy enough.  But when I went to do the same for gtk, it said it
> couldn't find a new enough version of glib!!! Well that made me upset, cause
> I don't know my way around linux, and the instructions didn't work.
> 

run /sbin/ldconfig as root and then run ./configure for gtk