Re: GTK+ 2.99.3 released

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

> I am running ubuntu 10.10 and Gnome 2.32.0.  I am a bit afraid to update
> via a install from a tar download because of all the dependence issues
> on ubuntu.  Is there a way to update via command line or synaptic?

Install gtk2-dev (or something like that). It will install most of 
required depencies to build new glib and gtk3.

After that, download glib, and install like this:

./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk3-stuff
make
make install

Then create script /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh with content:

#!/bin/sh
export PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/bin:${PATH}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/lib/pkgconfig"

Make it executable and "source" it
chmod +x /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh
source /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh

You will need to "source" the file everytime you would like to build 
gtk3 app or app using newest glib (which seems to be required by gtk3).

Now build gtk3:

./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk3-stuff
make
make install

Nothing to be afraid of as long as you install to /opt/gtk3-stuff and 
not to /usr.

Feel free to ask if you get configure/compilation error - maybe few 
build depencies will be required, which won't get installed as depencies 
for gtk2-dev.