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02-17-2005, 02:56 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Slackware, BackTrack, Windows XP
Posts: 1,020
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problem in "./configure" gaim
Hello all,
i have redhat 8
i'm trying to install "gaim-1.1.2.tar.gz"
when i'm configuring it.........at the last its giving the error....saying..
......."Could not run GLIB test program, checking why....
.......The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
.......exact error that occurred. This usrally means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
...configure: error:
.......GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
...... development headers instlled. The latest version of GLib is always availbel
......at http://www.gtk.org/.................
so in order to over come this problem i installed "glib-2.0.0.tar.bz2"
it was extraced, configured, make and make installed properly....
after that i "updatedb" ....
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But agsin when i'm trying to "./confiugre" the "gaim" its giving the same problem...
I just fed of trying to install some media player........
Plz. help me out...
Regards
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02-17-2005, 03:19 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Piraeus
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 13,229
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Add the path to the installed glib in /etc/ld.so.conf and run afterwards.
But I think it would be better to use rpm to install glib.
Regards
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02-17-2005, 04:29 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Slackware, BackTrack, Windows XP
Posts: 1,020
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Hello........
how am i supposed to know that where the files of "glib" are after
installation.?
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i tried "locate glib"..........but its showing hundreds of files....
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what should i do/??
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02-17-2005, 04:37 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Egypt
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 1,528
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why dont u use a package manager like apt-get or yum
so if u want to install gaim all you have to do is type : apt-get install gaim
it will then download it and its dependencies (if it has) and install it for you
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02-17-2005, 04:38 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Piraeus
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 13,229
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Read the INSTALL file in the directory you extracted glib-2.0.0.tar.bz2, or run ./configure --help to see what is the default installation location.
But If I were you, I would install glib using the RH package manager since it's a critical library.
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02-17-2005, 05:43 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Slackware, ROCK
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this is most likely happening because you installed a different version of glib on your system even though it already has one installed (but without the devel files - rpm distro's  ) you need to remove the glib-2.0.0 you installed and install the -devel package for the glib you already have if this is the case.
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02-17-2005, 06:10 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Slackware, BackTrack, Windows XP
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Being a newbie....i don't know how to uninstall the "tared" sources....
i know only to remove rpm pacages.....
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02-17-2005, 06:22 AM
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if you kept the source directory around, go back to it and do "make uninstall" as root.
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02-17-2005, 06:44 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Slackware, BackTrack, Windows XP
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Mr. __J...
sorry for asking very silly questions.........but being newbie i don't know
anything.
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as u said i unstalled the "glib".........
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but now how to install the "devel glib" which should already be there
on my system....
.........where it will be i don't know.........?
moreover i just posted a query asking how to run the "devel rpm" for
gaim....?
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regards
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02-17-2005, 06:55 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Egypt
Distribution: Arch
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sorry to ask again but , why dont u use a package manager like apt-get or yum
so if u want to install gaim all you have to do is type : apt-get install gaim
it will then download it and its dependencies (if it has) and install it for you
and if u want to uninstall it u will have to type : apt-get remove gaim
there is also gui for it called synaptic
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02-17-2005, 06:55 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
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look on your install cd's for it. or use up2date or yum ( look in the red hat/fedora forum on this board) to install the -devel package.
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02-17-2005, 07:28 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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most of these problems arise because as a newbie u do not install some packages which might be required
so the best solution i think is to go for a full install instead of looking each time in ur cds for packages
i too have faced a lot of problem earlier
regards
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