how to know: gtk and qt?

stabu · 06-18-2008, 11:15 AM

When installing stuff, you often get given a list of dependency requirements, with qt and GTK most often coming up.

how do I knwo which version of them do I have installed? "qt --version" doesn't seem to work, and GTK seems to have several types of libraries, so I can't think which of them should have their version number checked.

Any short cuts for working this out?

MasterC · 06-18-2008, 11:46 AM

Depending on your distro you can query the packages that are installed. With Slackware you would use something like pkg-config, on Gentoo you use emerge, equery, or something similar, and with RPM based distros you can use rpm -qa

-Chad

Nylex · 06-18-2008, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterC

With Slackware you would use something like pkg-config

You mean pkgtool

. A simple less on /var/log/packages also works.

MasterC · 06-18-2008, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

You mean pkgtool

. A simple less on /var/log/packages also works.

I meant pkgtool

I even thought about it for half a second after I typed pkg-config.. Thanks for the "fix"

-Chad

stabu · 06-18-2008, 06:56 PM

thanks for replies.
I really should know all this, but unfortunately I'm a rather undisciplined slack user.
I tried "pkgtool GTK2+". And it takes forever ...

what a ninkumpoop I am!

I should have sensed that, as an _interactive_ tool, it requires no arguments. Nor will it give you any errors, if it gets an argument.

I can't believe I've had to write this, to discover this.

thanks for your help anyhow.