Re: Installing gtk/gtkmm on Linux

[Denis Leroy <denis poolshark org>]

Mickael Drean wrote:
>     Which version of redhat are you running? 
>
>
> Red Hat 9

I have some old RPMs available here

  http://www.poolshark.org/rh9/

RedHat 9 is very very old and is only supported by the Fedora Legacy 
project. They do not however provide gtkmm RPMs. Also, RedHat 9 is based 
on Gnome 2.2, so you cannot compile anything higher than the gtkmm 2.2.x 
series. Do not even try to compile things like newer gtk+ or glib 
libraries, this is almost impossible and amounts to upgrading the entire 
distribution! If you need something higher than gtkmm 2.2.x, you will 
have to ugprade from RedHat 9 to Fedora (FC2: gtkmm 2.4, FC4: gtkmm 2.6, 
FC5: gtkmm 2.8)



This means you cannot compile the latest versions of gtkmm. If you