Re: How to install GTK in linux

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

You should add /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf

Le dimanche 02 novembre 2008 à 10:52 +0300, Yuriy Rusinov a écrit :
> Hello, Ian !
> 
> > What am I doing wrong here? I'm trying to install the latest GTK/GLIB on a
> > Linux Fedora 9 system that currently has GTK 2.12 and GLIB 2.16, which are
> > the versions yum installs.
> >
> > I downloaded the gtk 2.14 and glib 2.18 .tar.gz packages, unpacked them and
> > ran configure, make and make install. But they install into /usr/local/lib
> > and so the app still picks up the older versions from /usr/lib. I tried
> > "make install prefix=/usr" but that failed with an error.
> 
> You shound try to run ./configure --prefix=<your target dir>.
> >
> > One thing I noticed is that this is a 64-bit system and the GTK/GLIB
> > libraries are located under /usr/lib64, but the above make installed
> > libraries into /usr/local/lib, not lib64. Is that correct?
> 
> If libraries are 64 bit then this is correct. But in another case you
> can say ./configure --prefix=... --libdir=... and libraries will be
> set to your target directory.
>