Hy Gang:

I am running Suse 9.0 and I need to upgrade my GLIB from 1.2.10 (or something like that. I am not sure for certain, but I know it is inadequate to upgrade to the latest XMMS). Anywho, it seems like something like this should not be done by a newbie without the sage advice of some people with experience first. I am not using an .rpm file (because as I stated I am using SuSE and they only had the source files for Red Hat I believe) so I am going with the "ball." I would like to know where I should unzip the damn thing and then what to do from there. I am a Windows guy (trying to convert) and I get the very real sence that messy with GLIB is like poking your finger around registry of Windows when you don't know what you are doing. Any advice?

Cheers.

glib and glibc are completely different things.

glibc is the GNU C Library; it's basically the foundation of your system--without it, nothing would work. It's not something you want to mess with unless you know what you're doing.

glib (note the "c" is missing) is a library many programs depend on, but a little less crucial than glibc.

There are two versions of glib: glib, and glib2. You probably want glib2; you should be able to find a package on your suse install CDs called something like glib2-2.2.3-21.i586.rpm. Install it, and you should be able to run XMMS.

Lyle

I appreciate the info, actually you cleared up a lot. I did install the glib2 from the SuSE CD's however it did not clear up the problems. Should I just de-install the XMMS that came with SuSE and install the newer version so it is forced to rely on the glib2? As for the glibc, i will not mess with it. ;-)

Cheers

I just had a look at the xmms site. It says it needs glib, not glib2. I should have looked before (oops.)


Have a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094. It should get you started on compiling things from source.

Lyle

Any idea where I could get the glib source or was I on the right track previously? (see first post in this thread)

Cheers