Re: Fwd: Re: Installing from RPM as GTK+

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

[ CC'ing back to gtk-list ]

Stephanie Bryant <steph scottrell com> writes:

> Owen,
> 
> I found your name listed as the packager for gtk2-2.0.1-1gtk.i386.rpm, which 
> I downloaded from gtk.org 
> (ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/binary/RedHat-7.2/RPMS/i386). 
> 
> I am having trouble installing this package and having it get recognized as 
> gtk+. Redhat 7.2 seems to install it as gtk2, and does not upgrade the 
> version of gtk+-1.2 that is currently installed. I am trying to install a 
> program that uses gtk+-2.0, and I get an error message when I try to do so. 
> 
> I sent an email to gtk-list describing this problem, and the response 
> (forwarded below, with original message) suggested that I contact you to 
> request new RPMs, because RPM is identifying gtk2-2.0.1-1gtk.i386.rpm as the 
> correct package for gtk+.

The gtk2 package intentionally is meant to along side the GTK+-1.2
package, which is why ithas a different name. If it replaced 
GTK+-1.2, all GTK+ applications on your system would stop
running.

I believe that your problem is that you didn't install the -devel
packages along with the main package. The -devel packages include
the necessary header files and support information for compiling
programs against GTK+.

Regards,
                                        Owen

> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: Re: Installing from RPM as GTK+
> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:00:06 -0500
> From: Paul Davis <pbd op net>
> To: steph scottrell com
> Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> 
> >I'm trying to upgrade GTK+ (2.0) from an RPM. I already have it installed as
> >1.2, and I want to upgrade it. When I download the RPM from the gtk.org
> > site, it installs it as gtk2. This means that the program I am trying to
> > upgrade (gtkspell) gives me this complaint:
> >
> >checking for gtk+-2.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config
> >search path.
> >Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> >to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> >No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> >
> >configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0) not met; consider
> > adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in
> > a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> >
> >Any suggestions? Can I upgrade using source code and still have RPM know
> > that gtk+ is now gtk+ version 2.0.1?
> 
> ask the author/packager to produce a new RPM. its checking for the
> wrong existing package, probably based on an older version of GTK+
> 2.0.