I was recently trtyign to install gtk+2.2 but i could not figure out how to upgrade it from 2.0.6 (i think thats what it was). Is there a simple way, or difficult for that matter, way of upgrading this program. I am somewhat of a newbie but understand much of installing and stuff. Thanks for the help in advance .

so you're installing from source then are you? if you're just on redhat, then you should just stick to RPM's until you're more comfortable with thing. just run

rpm -Uvh gtk+2-2.2.i386.rpm

and that will upgrade it (file name was a guess of course...) you'll proably get some dependencies, so just download and install them too, all on the same command line.

I know i could upgrade with .rpm files but i wanted to know how to do it with source ( gtk+-2-2-2.tar.gz) I know there must be a way to do it and figured it would be of my advantage to know how. thank you though

Go to a command line. Go to the directory where you downloaded gtk+-2-2-2.tar.gz. As root, type the following:

tar xvzf gtk+-2-2-2.tar.gz

This will unpack it. Use SHIFT+PgUp if it scrolls too far down so you can view where it was unpacked to. It is usually unpacked within the directory you are in. For instance, if you are in /home/dubsty13 and you unpack the tarball, it most likely will install it to /home/dubsty13/gtk+2-2-2. Go to that directory with the "cd" command. Once there, type ls to see the list of contents of the unpacked package. View any and all READMEs, HOWTOs, INSTALLs or whatever other text files to make sure you have all info before starting the install. Once you've done that, type the following as root:

./configure

Once that's done and you get to a command prompt, type the following:

make

This will take a while, but once you get to another bash prompt, type the following:

make install

This will be the last step and you should have it installed at this point. When you get to another bash prompt, it is done installing. Hope this helps