Re: installing a gtkmm development environment

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Michael Ekstrand wrote:

> 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
>
>  
Hey, thats pretty nifty. Although, how do you tell what version is 
actually installed then?

Paul