Hi everyone!
when i try to ./configure the gnome-python-2.10.0 i receive this error

No package 'pygtk-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.6.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

the issue is that i already installed pygtk-2.6.0 and ran the updatedb.
I"m sure that i am doing something wrong but i just can't figure out what. Asking google for it didn't help at all. So i hope you will

I am runnning Slackware 10.1

Did you install pygtk yourself? If so, is there a pygtk-2.0.pc somewhere? (usually in /usr/lib/pkgconfig or /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig)

If you do have a pygtk-2.0.pc file then make sure the directory it resides in is in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH system variable.

there are multiple ways of doing things, but remember ./configure, make, make install wil only get you so far, you have to do it correctly.

what you probably need ( this is assuming you installed pygtk with ./configure, make, make install):

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

rerun configure.

you do not need to run updatedb when installing new things. also, if your not already, you might want to make slack packages if you are going to be installing in /usr/local, otherwise removing/upgrading will be more work.

Thank you for your advices. I am not so new to linux but using distro's like Ubuntu made me forget hot it's all done "the unix way" . If you can tell me a little bit more about all the "PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment " because i don't get it

i will check it when i"ll get home. I have no idea about all the "PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment" . What is it good for? and why should i install in usr/local i"m still thinking windows i am installing everything in /home/ directory

you can install things wherever you want ( keep in mind if you have more than one user, the other users will not be able to use things from you home directory unless you do some tinkering).

the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is an environmental variable that the program pkg-config uses to define it's search path for .pc files. if PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set, it uses it's own defaults. when you install libraries that use pkg-config outside of /usr, you need to set the variable to include your new directories containing .pc files. there are different ways to set it, each differ on the order the directories are searched:

this sets /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig as the only directory searched

this set /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig as the very first directory searched, notice the variable at the end with the $ in front, the $ will expand it out to whatever PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains

notice on this one the variable is in front now, which will expand and add /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to the end, making /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig the last directory searched.

in this case, the order is not important as long as you have the directory containing the .pc files somewhere in the path. later, if you decide you want to install conflicting versions of things, like say a gnome-2.8 installation and a gnome-2.10 installation on the same machine, the order of environmental variables becomes more important, as you can see above you can force the system to look in one place before another for what it wants, making it easy to force the system to ignore libraries or pick up certain sets of libraries before it finds older libraries. PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc... work the same way.

Thanks a lot
Learned something usefull today