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Couple of questions...

Is there such a thing as defragmentation in linux? If so, how do I do it?

And two: when I install glib-2.3.0 and gtk+-2.3.0 I think I'm installing them in the wrong directories. Where the hell do they go? Here's what I get when I try to install gtk+-2.3.0:

Quote:

checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.3.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.2.0... Package atk was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `atk.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'atk' found

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.3.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[root@localhost gtk+-2.3.0]#

What do I do?

Same thing for trying to install XMMS 1.2.8

Quote:

checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2...
*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.9, 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 not installed - please install first ***
[root@localhost xmms-1.2.8]#

But I DID install GLIB 2.3.0 so I'm guessing it IS more recent than 1.2.2. What am I doing wrong? Wrong directory?

Defragmentation is not a big problem in Linux. The file system is very different than windoze. It kind of does it automatically. It also does it during fsck to I think. It did that on mine anyway.

Mine may run about 1 to 2%. I wouldn't worry about it in windoze and I surely won't in Linux.

Hope that helps to clear that up a bit.

Later

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