Glib/gtk what is it ? i really need him ?

SlackwareMan · 07-29-2004, 05:16 PM

hi .. i want to know what is it glib\gtk
what they do for what need him
can you explain me this please ?

thanks in advance ...
roy

Tinkster · 07-29-2004, 05:18 PM

Really you could have just looked at
http://www.gtk.org for that one ... or read
the slackware package descriptions, for
that matter ...

Cheers,
Tink

Mara · 07-29-2004, 05:22 PM

Glib and GTK are libraries. Glib is more low-level and allows programmmer to do many things in an easier way (short tutorial here: http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-glib.html). GTK is graphical library - it's used to draw windows etc in GNOME.
The two are needed by many programs and they won't run without them. If you're not a programmer, however, you don't use them directly.

SlackwareMan · 07-29-2004, 05:31 PM

i use slack 10 with kde what to download from this two ?
and what file because when i get to downloads .... i see many many files
i will happy if you can explain this ...
thanks again
roy

Tinkster · 07-29-2004, 05:39 PM

If you installed Slack (and KDE for that matter) from CD
you will find both glib and gtk on those CD's as well.

Cheers,
Tink

SlackwareMan · 07-29-2004, 05:49 PM

how can i use him ? i mean i download now the xmule and in the insall is write

Code:

You will need glib/gtk (package names like glib and glibdev or glib-devel, gtk and gtkdev or gtk-devel) to compile xMule.

so now i dont know what to do ? i need to open the gtk or glib for install or what ?
can you explain me ? because im in really mess now

thanks a lot to you ..
roy

Mara · 07-31-2004, 05:56 PM

You need to have glib and gtk packages (with their -devels), so check if you have glib, glib-devel, gtk, gtk-devel. Then the compilation should go.