Hi everyone,
Yet again I am lost. I was trying to install a newer version of Mozilla and got this error msg:

checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found.
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
*** GTK+ is available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
configure: error: Test for GTK failed.

From what I understand, this needs gtk1 to work. So I downloaded gtk1 and glib for it, (I installed glib) and got this error msg:

checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2...
*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.2, but GLIB (1.2.10)
*** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
*** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file config.cache
*** before re-running configure
no
configure: error:
*** GLIB 1.2.2 or better is required. The latest version of GLIB

what did I do wrong? Help greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. And if I need to uninstall glib 1.2.10 please tell me how because I tried to find it and couldn't. Thanks again!

you need to have the gtk-devel package installed to compile the programs. not sure why you're trying to use source though.. use rpm's until you're more comfortable with linux as a whole.

as for glib though... what version DID you install? 1.2.2 or 1.2.10? if you run "rpm -qa | grep glib" you'll presumably see glib-1.2.2 and glib-devel-1.2.10 or the other way round,....

Hi Chris, you're always quick to the rescue, I really appreciate that
Here's what I get:

[hex@localhost hex]$ rpm -qa | grep glib
libglib1.2-1.2.10-6mdk
glibc_lsb-2.2.90-11mdk
glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
glibc-2.2.5-16mdk
libglib2.0_0-2.0.6-2mdk

Weird.. why was it telling me it "found glib version 1.2.10" hehe I will never understand the inner "wisdom" behind linux I guess..
Okay I now need to download the version 1 .2..2 of these obviously.. I'll do that and let you know what happens. Thanks yet once again!

Okay I installed newer glib :

[hex@localhost hex]$ rpm -qa | grep glib
libglib1.2-1.2.10-6mdk
glibc_lsb-2.2.90-11mdk
glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk
glib-devel-1.2.3-2mdk
glibc-2.2.5-16mdk
libglib2.0_0-2.0.6-2mdk
glib-1.2.3-2mdk

GTK+ won't install .. same error msg:

*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.3, but GLIB (1.2.10)
*** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLIB.
bla bla bla

(I ran ldconfig)

You need the gtk-devel packages for GTK1.

We've been through this before I think - remember, when compiling from source, you need package foo AND the package foo-devel (RPMs don't have that requirement).

In general a "foo-config is missing" error or a pkgconfig failure means, install the -devel package!

Oops didn't know that! Thanks very much indeed Mike