Re: newbie installation question

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Steven I Usdansky <usdanskys rocketmail com> writes:

> I'm looking to port my app to gtk2.0 and was considering installing
> 1.3.5 to begin the port.  I noticed that the rpm files for 1.3.5 are
> listed under Redhat 7.1 whereas I'm running 7.0.  Can I install the
> 7.1 rpm files under 7.0?

Probably not; the problem that I'd expect you will run into is that
these RPMS are built with support for the render extension, which
wasn't included in the 7.0 X packages.

(If you've upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, it might work, though
I won't make any promises.)

You should, however, be able to rebuild the RPMS pretty easily (though
it will take a while.)

 rpm --rebuild glib2-1.3.5-1.src.rpm
 rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/glib2-*
 rpm --rebuild pango-0.16-1.src.rpm
 rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/pango-*
 rpm --rebuild atk-0.1-1.src.rpm
 rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/atk-*
 rpm --rebuild gtk2-1.3.5-1.src.rpm
 rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/gtk2-*

Should work.

Regards,
                                        Owen