Re: Problems with installation of Gtk2 on SUSE 9.1

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Pih Lung Pang wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 19:33, muppet wrote:
>
> > On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Pih Lung Pang wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I then wanted to install the Gtk2-Perl package from sourgeforge.net
> > > and I found binary files for fedora(fc4.rpm) and redhat(rh8/9.rpm),
> > > but
> > > not for suse. Their was a source src.rpm, is that for all
> > > distributions?
> >
> > The source rpm is made directly with our own spec files.  We know
> > that it works for RH8 through FC4.  You can try it on SUSE if you
> > like; let us know what you find.
>
> I would like to if I'm sure how to do it!
> After installation of Gtk2-1.100 from source,
> I updated the rpm database, using #SuSEconfig.
>
> I expected to see that packaget using  rpm -qa |grep [gG]tk.

Installing from source completely bypasses your packaging mechanism.   
So, if you did this:

  # rpm -i perl-Gtk2-1.100.src.rpm
  # cd /whereever/that/went/Gtk2-1.100/
  # perl Makefile.PL
  # make install

then you merely dropped a bunch of files into your filesystem without  
any record of how to get rid of them.

To use a source rpm effectively, you want to do this:

   # rpmbuild --rebuild perl-Gtk2-1.100.src.rpm
   # rpm -Uvh /wherever/your/rpms/are/built/RPMS/yourarch/perl- 
Gtk2-1.100-1.yourarch.rpm

Note: this is not a vendor RPM, so we install to site_perl rather  
than vendor_perl.  This is one reason some distros repackage gtk2-perl.


> #rpm -evf Gtk2-1.100
> error: package Gtk2-1.100 is not installed
>
> It's not there.

The RPM's name is "perl-Gtk2", since the convention for RPM naming is  
to prefix perl modules with "perl-".


> How can I uninstall Gtk2-1.100?
> Before I test rpm -ivf perl-Gtk2-1.100-1.src.rpm!

**** I'm assuming you haven't installed any other modules in the Gtk2  
or Gtk2::Ex namespaces!!! These instructions will delete them!  ****

First, find where it was installed.  For example, on my machine:

  homie:~$ locate Gtk2.pm
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/blib/lib/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2-stable-1-04/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2-stable-1-06/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2-clean/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/cvs/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2-stable-1-08/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/src/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/Gtk2.pm
  /home/scott/src/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2-stable-1-04/Gtk2.pm

Quite obviously, i have several source trees lying around, but the  
installed version is in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux- 
thread-multi/ .

Find out where perl keeps its library:

  $ perl -V:prefix
  prefix='/usr';

This means the library is in /usr/perl5/lib.

  $ find /usr/lib/perl5 -name "Gtk2*"
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2/ 
Gtk2.bs
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2/ 
Gtk2.so
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2.pm

The manpages are stored with your system's manpages, and are a little  
easier to dig up:

   $ ls /usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2*
   [tons and tons of files]

Just delete these and you're clean:

  $ su
  # rm -rf /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/ 
auto/Gtk2
  # rm -rf /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/Gtk2
  # rm -f /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/ 
Gtk2.pm
  # rm -f /usr/share/man/man3/Gtk2*



> t/GtkPaned...................ok 65/59# Looks like you planned 59 tests
> but ran 6 extra.

This test is set up as TODO because the sizing is dependent upon  
window managers playing nicely.  The *number* of tests should be  
constant, though.  Something's up.


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