Re: installing a gtkmm development environment

["Michael Ekstrand" <michael elehack net>]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:32:00AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >By the way, does Debian really not ship 2.8.x yet?  Or is there some
> >other reason you're trying to install from source?
> >
> Linux plasma 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> Ubuntu 5.10 "Badger Breezy" (is what it says on the virtual terminal, 
> not sure what to use to show the version of the distro itself.)
> 
> $ apt-cache search libgtkmm-2.8
> 
> Gives me no results.
> 
> $ apt-cache search libgtkmm
> 
> Shows libgtkmm-2.4 as the newest package in the "standard" 
> repositories.  By standard, I mean I haven't added any except for the 
> universe and security repos that come commented out.
> 
> ...and it still says it after an apt-get update.
> 
> So yeah, this version hasn't got 2.8 yet.

Not quite...

Debian (and Ubuntu) name the packages after the API version number.
Version 2.8 uses the 2.4 API and ABI (that is, it is
binary-backwards-compatible with 2.4).  Hence, the libgtkmm-2.4 package
has the latest 2.4-compatible gtkmm - on Ubuntu, this is 2.8.x; on
Debian Testing, it's still at 2.6.5.  The 2.4 is merely to distinguish
from 2.0 and 1.x - exactly like the pkg-config module names are set up.
`pkg-config --modversion gtkmm-2.4` may return 2.8.x.

- Michael

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