GIMP thinks I have two versions of GTK, but I don't

Belboz99 · 06-19-2005, 10:35 AM

Hey all.

Here's what's been going on:

I'm a photographer, and most of my income comes from scanning and editing old photos. So, I decided to upgrade GIMP to the latest version, 2.3.1. The current version I was using on Debian 3.1 was 2.2.0, so it seemed a worthwhile effort.

What I ran into was dependency hell. After 4 hours of compiling packages I finnally got all the dependencies installed.

So, with fingers crossed I cd'ed to the gimp installation folder, typed ./configure, and pressed enter.

Much to my dismay it ran into an error. It says that it's finding both GTK+ 2.6.4 and GTK+ 2.6.8. The problem is that I never installed 2.6.4, and the strange thing is that's the version of glib that I installed.

How to I get past this?

I've been at it for about 2 hours now with no luck.

Here is the error I recieved:

Code:

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.6.0...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0' returned 2.6.8, but GTK+ (2.6.4)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GTK+. 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: Test for GTK+ failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.

Thanks,
Dan O.

foo_bar_foo · 06-19-2005, 11:04 AM

you have most likely compiled and installed stuff into /usr/local
(if you just did ./configure the default is /usr/local)
on the other hand the original gtk and freinds are installed in /usr
so now you got 2

it may work to do exactly what the output sugests
alter LD_LIBRARY_PATH so the new libgtk path is first when you do
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

basically it sounds like you have a mess there now and it might take some creativity to get it going properly

Belboz99 · 06-19-2005, 11:28 AM

I'm going to need more detailed instructions than that.

When I do

Code:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I get a blank line.

Dan O.

mhearn · 06-19-2005, 12:35 PM

type

"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib"

before running configure.

Belboz99 · 06-19-2005, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mhearn
type

"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib"

before running configure.

Thanks! That did it!

Now all I have to do is knock out the rest of the depenencies. Compiling Gimp-Print as I type.

Dan O.