problems installing glib
I've Redhat 9.0 installed on my system but I didn't initially install gnome. while installing gaim-0.71 I got the following error message.
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is *** always available at http()//www()gtk()org/. So I downloaded latest glib from gtk-org and tried installing it. I got no error while installing glib. But the I keep on getting the above error while installing gaim even after that. I also tried to install GTK, ATK and PANGO from gtk.org but they all give the same above error of not finding glib. I also get the following error while installing gaim from rpm package. error: Failed dependencies: gtk+2.0 >= 2.0.0 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 libnss3 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 libaspell.so.15 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 libpspell.so.15 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 perl-base >= 2:5.8.0 is needed by gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1 Can somebody help? Should I first delete the files relating to glib from my system? Thnx in advance |
Why are you installing a Mandrake RPM package for a RedHat system?
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is that a problem?
I have the same error where can we get the RPM (or any other type of file) for Red Hat? |
If you install RPMs compiled for other distros you're just making yourself closer to dependency hell.
for Gaim they do provided rpms for Redhat 9 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php there's couple of good websites for searching RPMs, here's one I remember from top of my head http://www.rpmseek.com |
try this, it worked for me
edit the .bashrc (vi .bashrc) insert the following lines: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig save the changes. Try to install again. |
I had the same problem while trying to install GTK on a debian system. I solved it copying the .pc files in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to /usr/lib/pkgconfig I never got the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable to work. But after doing this I encoutered another problem while doing ./configure on another of the dependencies for GTK (ATK) and the error message looks like the following:
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.4.0, but GLIB (2.2.3) *** was found! If pkg-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 pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH *** to point to the correct configuration files no configure: error: *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed *** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file *** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Now I have only installed 2.4.0 on my set, nothing else. A "find / -name glib-2.0.pc" only returns the files that has to do with 2.4.0 so how can I have 2.2.3 installed? How do I get past this? |
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