I successfully installed gaim 0.63 from source, and all the associated libraries (glib, gtk+-2.2.1, etc). Although gaim runs fine, now I can't start many other programs, including mozilla!

After installing gaim, I dragged the gaim icon from /usr/local/bin down to the KDE toolbar, so I would have a shortcut there. Then I decided I didn't like the shortcut & I removed it. I have no idea if it's relevant, but it's the only action I remember performing between installing gaim and the onset of this problem.

I haven't tested all programs, but here's a partial list of programs that no longer work (when I open the /usr/bin folder in Konqueror, and click on one of these programs, I get the error "couldn't find the program program_name_here":

mozilla
gabber
gnomeICU
LICQ (KDE)
gFTP
GnomeTalk
Evolution
GIMP

The following programs (again, just a partial list) still work fine:

Konqueror
KIT
LICQ
Lftp
KSirc
faces

I am running Mandrake 9.0 and use KDE 3.0.5a, although GNOME is installed as well.

And I thought I was doing so well for getting gaim installed! Grr. Anyway, thanks for any help, this seems like a great bulletin board.

Try running the programs that are giving you trouble from a shell(i.e.):

mozilla

See if it spits out any usefull errors.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response.

typing "mozilla -v" gives:

"usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

and typing "gabber" gives:

"gabber: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

...and so on. I *remember* deleting all libgdk* AND all libgtk* files in /usr/lib in order to be able to install gtk+-2.1.1. (I found this advice during a search on linuxquestions.org. It worked to get gtk+-2.1.1 installed, but unfortunately seems to be causing problems now.)

How can I convince mozilla, gabber, etc., to use gtk+-2.1.1, instead of the old gtk 1.2 libraries?

(Gtk+-2.1.1 appears to be installed in /usr/local/lib, whereas gtk-1.2 was installed in /usr/lib, if that makes any difference.)

Thanks.

I think when you installed gaim and changed gtk you messed up the version that mozilla and gabber were using. Try uninstalling Mozilla and then re-installing.

May I ask why you installed gaim from source? Stick with rpm if you can.

he overwrote the version of glib and gtk that all those
programs were linked to.
you might could have gotten away with it if you
rpm -i instead of rpm -U
for install instead of upgrade.
get your mandrake cd and rpm -i the original gtk and glib.