xmms says cant find glib, and wont install,but i have it !
 

Hi,
I am new to linux, i tried my hands on fc 6 with gnome, and hear that xmms is real good at playin mp3s, i get it and do ./configure. Then it tells me i need the GLIB, i download both GLIB and GTK and install them, still the same problem,.....i check out some forums and docs and find these are supposed to be there in any good distro.,...so what now says i ? i have seen solutions to use yum , but i dont have a net connection and so cant use that,.....if any of you could help me in any other way,...will be really greatfull.
I have a feeling that it has something to do with exporting the library o something,....with the export path or sometjing like that,...but please do explain as i dont know how these work.....cheers....:scratch:

You probably just need to install the devel versions of those missing packages.

Sorry about that,...new to this,...will remember from now on

I have the dev packages installed, they come with fc6, i reinstalled Fedora and this time absolutely made sure that the Devel packages do get installed and they did, yet i get the same error message,....no matter what i try,....dont have net so cant get YUM to do it for me either, please help....!!!

Could you possibly post the output it gives when you try to install it? Sometimes you think its complaining about one thing and it is really more concerned with something a couple lines up. That and we could probably help you better if we knew more of what was going on.

Will do,....i will post the output,....today will not be possible,... many thanks for watching out, you are much appreciated. I will be back with the outputs.

[root@localhost xmms-1.2.10]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for prefix by checking for xmms... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for inline... inline
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
creating libtool
checking pthread.h usability... yes
checking pthread.h presence... yes
checking for pthread.h... yes
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***

This is the output when i configure xmms.
Being frustrated as i am itried installing a xmms.rpm from an old fedora core
cd, even then it said it failed dependencies like gtk+... but i have all of those packages installed with lots higher version.....help,..i am going crazy,...i am tired of windows and cant live without my mps in linux......help nebody...:cry: :cry:

checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.

You snapshot says, that you don't have glib version higher than 1.2.2. And i could see glib-config doesn't exist, if you have one then set in the path to GLIB_CONFIG

export GLIB_CONFIG=/path/to/glib-confg.

Else you can try installing rpm (have look at Installing xmms music player on Fedora )

Why not just use "yum install xmms"?

This FAQ amy help you out along the way...
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

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