finding environmental variables
 

trying to install GTK+ 2.4 on mandrake 9.2, having quitte a few problems...it asks me to modify my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.....where can i find this, and what am i supposed to modify it to?

It probably isn't set at all ...

As for the value: if it wants you to set it, it
is likely to say what to set it to as well...

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<gtk's mumble>


To see whether it actually is set try
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or
env | grep LIBRARY



Cheers,
Tink

thanks for the quick reply, did the echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and a blank line was returned...guess its not set , i kept smashing my head into the keyboard and finally got the GTK configure to run, but running its ./configure as : ./configure --prefix=/usr ....why would that fix anything (ie. what is prefix doing?)

probably changing the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable..