Fedora Core 5 .. problems with glib
 

i install glib-2.8.6 .. but when i try to install any program wich depends on glib .. it say`s that i have glib-1.2.2 .. it doesn-t find the new version .. what can i do ??

Which program do you mean under "any" ? Some old programs can't detect newer versions of glib, and exitin with such errors.

1. how did you install glib-2.8.6?
2. how are you installing the "any" package?

Chances are you need to redo the install via yum :) or add the path to glib-2.8.6 to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable. (Suspect the former as a yum upgrade to glib would have removed the earlier version.) I'm guessing: there just isn't enough info to be definitive here. Always give concrete examples and report the exact error message.

Hmm .. ok .. i receive this error .. when i try to install xmms .. (basic installation: ./configure , make , make install ) and i receive this error .. at ./configure

For xmms try to install regular package, have you yumex installed? and have you livna repos? Goto rpm.livna.org, there's instructions how to setup livna repos, and don't forget to install yumex. As root:

yum install yumex

Yumex is a graphical frontend for yum, there you can select which packages to install and remove

OK. That was one question out of two answered. (Did you do this as a hypothetical example, or did you actually do this? You see, if this was actually done I'd like to have seen a pasting of the relevant lines of output from configure. That would make the example "concrete".)

While the answer given helps, I really need the first question answered too.

Phoenix: while I suspect you're on the right track, installing xmms is not the point. The point is to be able to compile source code linked to glib, so that the "configure" script will locate the more recent version of glib installed.

on fedora there are 2 glibs. The latest are glib-1.2.10-18.2.2, and glib2-2.10.2-1.fc5.1. To compile you will need the -devel libs. (glib-devel, and glib2-devel). You can get them via yum.