GTK+ install problems

tkedwards · 08-29-2005, 05:48 PM

garvint go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org (or google for 'easyurpmi mirrors' if that's down) and setup access to the software repositories. Now you'll find you have access to lots more software, including the -devel packages. Also Firefox comes with Mandriva and if you run Mandrake Update (in the Mandrake Control Centre->Software) after installing it it will be updated to a version with all the latest security and bug fixes (although it will still say version 1.0.2 in the help about). If you have Mandriva 2005LE there is no reason to try to compile firefox from source or even download the binaries from mozilla.org.

Red Guy · 08-31-2005, 04:42 PM

I solved this:

BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS="-I/opt/gtk-2.8/include"
BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS="-L/opt/gk-2.8/lib"
export BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS

I installed glib, pango in /opt/gtk-2.8, now the problem is that don't recognize pango

checking Pango flags... configure: error:
*** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required
*** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information.

I have installed cairo in /opt/gtk-2.8 but gtk don't recognize this

Quercus ruber · 09-14-2005, 05:30 PM

Quote:

When I try to ./configure GTK+-2.8.1 I receive this message:

-Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1' but version of GLib is 2.6.3
-configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.9.0 cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met.
-Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
-installed software in a non-standard prefix.

I had exactly that problem with GTK+-2.8.0

I set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/pkgconfig like this:

Code:

$export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig

I then discovered that for some uknown reason, I have 2 repositories for *.pc files. That is, I have 2 pkgconfig
directories. I have no idea why, but there it is. The atk.pc was in /usr/lib/pkgconfig and the others were in
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. I tried copying atk.pc to the same directory as the others, but the error didn't go away,
so I added both paths to PKG_CONFIG_PATH like this:

Code:

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

And the problem was solved.

But of course, another cropped up which I haven't solved yet:

Code:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.7.1...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.0, but GLIB (2.4.2)
*** 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.

I can't find any reference to glib-2.4.2 any where. slocate 2.4.2 results in nothing but kernal paths spewing
down the screen (I'm running 2.4.2).

I would appreciate any help with this..

Q. ruber

Micro420 · 09-14-2005, 05:46 PM

I've been using Mandrake since 9.1. I'm currently using Mandriva 2005LE. Ever since I've been using Mandrake 91., it seems as though everyone and their mom has this GTK+ problem.

Here's how I solved it (no, it does not involve URPMI, though I'm sure there's a way to do it with URPMI)

download Pango, GTK, and ATK.

IF I RECALL CORRECTLY:
./configure --prefix=/usr on all of those rather than just doing ./configure.

tkedwards · 09-14-2005, 07:39 PM

Quote:

I've been using Mandrake since 9.1. I'm currently using Mandriva 2005LE. Ever since I've been using Mandrake 91., it seems as though everyone and their mom has this GTK+ problem.

In older versions Mandrake probably installed more -devel packages by default. Nowadays because there are so many more packages in the distro they don't install many development packages by default and have moved a lot of them off the 3CD download set - they are available from the URPMI repos and the powerpack versions.

Anyway there is no need to compile GTK+, firefox, pango or anything else mentioned in this thread. Its all been packaged by Mandriva and a quick trip to easyurpmi will set you up with all the required repos.

If you want to compile stuff, especially non-trivial stuff like important system libraries, then you really need to know what you're doing. You need to be able to derive from error messages which development packages you need (although you could probably use urpmi to just install all of them if you wanted) and any version incompatabilities. Also run ./configure --help and see if it helps to specify the location of libraries or include files using the options to the configure script.

What people forget is that Linux is not Windows. You generally don't go searching the net and downloading software from the developers websites, because its almost always in source code form. The packaging of software is done by the distro maker and possibly other 3rd party packagers (eg. Dag Wieers for fedora) not the developer.

jcclaros · 02-18-2006, 08:27 PM

To instal GTK+ type in the terminal console this:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./configure

bobbelfield · 02-19-2006, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tkedwards

What people forget is that Linux is not Windows. You generally don't go searching the net and downloading software from the developers websites, because its almost always in source code form.

Yep however Linux needs windows users in large numbers to get competetive with windows and hang on as a free system.
If we dont have the numbers Linux will go under in a commercial sense and we will be paying somebody just like windows.

Thats why the thrust of Linux is and should be to GUI's and away from the technocrats ..they can still exist well but we don't need to tell newbey's to use the console all the time. That won't help keep them here.