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Trying to install pygtk 2.10.6 on slack 12

Pretty much what the topic is. I'm using src2pkg to try and turn it into a package file, but everytime I try I get this error towards the end

Code:

ERROR! Compiling source code has failed.

This usually happens because of missing libraries, or

badly written Makefiles or configure scripts.

Found an RPM .spec file which shows this:

Requires: gtk2 >= 2.0.0

Requires: %{python} >= 2.2

Requires: pygtk2 = %{version}

I don't really understand what it's trying to tell me (i have gtk2 and python, but how could i possibly have the program i'm trying to compile in order to compile it? I tried compiling it the old fasioned way, but that was even less informative. The only reason I knew something was wrong was there was the word error in so many places before stopping. If anyone has any idea what i need to do, that'd be some great help.

when you are compiling the old fashioned way,i believe you need to use ./configure --prefix=/usr otherwise python will not be able to find the files you are looking for,i hope this helps..

regards

todders

src2pkg does that automatically, and when i did a manual install I remembered to put that in because of the instructions from the web page i got it from. As far as i can tell, that isn't the problem, but thanks all the same