I am trying to update glib (and subsequently gtk). I've downloaded the files and followed the instructions in the INSTALL file. But for some reason, the libraries don't seem to be updated. Here is exactly what I did:

tar xvfj glib-2.8.6.tar.bz2
cd glib-2.8.6
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig

Everything completes without an error. Now when I check the version with pkg-config, I get 2.6.1. Since it doesn't recognize the newer version of glib, gtk gets an error when I try ./configure. Any help would be appreciated.

Help us to help you...gtk gets an error doesn't tell us much. What error? Post it here... (put it inside [code ] [/ code] brackets (without the spaces).

To install gtk you need glib, pango and atk too...before you install gtk. My guess is that's why it's failing. Also, do:

./configure --prefix=/usr

rather than just ./configure, for each stage and run ldconfig (that's LDconfig) as root after doing make install on each step.

Thanks. Doing ./configure --prefix=/usr seems to have solved the problem.

just a shot but isant it" tar xvjf package.tar.bz2 " ?
jolphil

As far as I know, the order of the options doesn't matter as long as one of the function letters comes first . Check the man pages on tar for more information.

I finally got everything working, but it took a few tries. Here is something weird I found:

I had to compile everything twice (glib, pango, cairo, etc...), except gtk, to get everything to work correctly. Compiling glib with --prefix=/usr allowed pkg-config to see the correct version, but when I went to compile gtk, I got an error that said something like "pkg-config says the version is 2.8.5 but the files are version 2.6.1" Compiling and installing with "./configure --prefix=/usr" and then compiling and installing with just "./configure" got rid of this error. Same with pango. Compiling and installing with "./configure --prefix=/usr" got gtk to compile, but firefox stopped working until I recompiled and installed with just "./configure" Of course after each round of configuring, I ran make, make install, and ldconfig. But once I did all this, I compiled gtk with "./configure --prefix=/usr", make, make install, and ldconfig. Then everything worked. Thanks again for all the help.

Hi,
Glad you got it working..The reason I replied was I remember reading the f argument expects to be followed by the file name but since then, I went back and read further down and found some versions of tar don't care about order..
anyway again,glad it going..
jolphil