hi how do i get rid of destroy annihilate or uninstall glib 2.2.1 on a red hat 9 system or at least cripple it enough so it cant be found

please help

Why?

--Ian

i need pkg-config to find glib 2.5.7 and up and all dependencies also upgrade gtk+ so i can install xmsn and when i try to configure atk it finds the latest version of glib it also finds my older version and all flashy lights going off saying it needs the upgraded version (ill get the error message to you later today.

Bored Student

I take it xmsn is an MSN client?

Why are you running Redhat 9 - this is very old now, and has been unsupported for about 2.5 years. Why not try upgrading to Fedora Core 6 (if you are happy with Redhat), or another distro such as Ubuntu? Both of these come with several chat clients such as Gaim, amsn and Kopete.

Most people have no reason to be running Redhat 9, and modern distros will give you a much better "experience"

--Ian

I need it for college work since the practical session has to be done on redhat 9 so quit questioning my motives and help me

Actually IBall was trying to help you. Simply explaining that you needed to use RH9 for school work would have been sufficient. The attitude and "you owe me help" mentality is neither required nor welcome. No one here owes you a helping hand; we all voluntarily offer our services.

Here are the manuals for RH9, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual. The answer to your question is in one of them. Hint, use your package manager.

im sorry that i came over demanding im just getting a bit frustrated and thanks for the help anyway i know you dont owe it me
(hope im forgiven) well heres the error message

checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.12.0, but GLIB (2.2.1)
*** 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.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files
no
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.5.7 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
*** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
*** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

i have tried to uninstall it with rpm but because alot of programs depend on it, it wont let me uninstall

Any help would be appreciated
(almost forgot)

ive managed to solve this problem and installed all the dependencies for gtk+ but now gtk+ doesnt detect them
please help!

Theres no need for help anymore ive broken my machine and need tofix it first