GTK+ 2.6.0 installation problems

Micro420 · 01-13-2005, 12:43 PM

I'm trying to install GTK+ 2.6.0
It requires 3 dependencies: atk, pango, GLIB

I first installed GLIB 2.6.0 using ./configure, make, and make install.
Everything went fine.

I then went to install atk and did ./configure and got this at the end:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7... no
*** 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 occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GLIB 2.5.7 or better is required. The latest version of
*** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
*** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
*** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

I then typed:

Code:

[root@ken atk-1.9.0]# locate glib-2.0.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc

So then I did

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig

I still get the same error.

So then I did as root

Code:

pkg-config /usr/lib/pkgconfig

and I still get the same error when trying to ./configure atk. What's going on? Why doesn't my system know that I have GLIB installed?

reddazz · 01-13-2005, 01:35 PM

Try reinstalling glib and then running "ldconfig" when you have finished, then try installing gtk.

Andrew Benton · 01-13-2005, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Micro420

I first installed GLIB 2.6.0 using ./configure, make, and make install.
Everything went fine.

This will install glib in it's default location, /usr/local, so you need to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. But that's not the end of it. You're going to need to set about half a dozen CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS and stuff to force atk, pango and gtk to link against the things you've installed in /usr/local and stop them linking to the old libraries you have in /usr/lib. Reading this may help.

reddazz · 01-13-2005, 02:07 PM

It would probably be easier, to

$./configure --prefix=/usr
$make
#make install

I know some people don't like installing stuff they compiled from source in /usr, but in this case you may save yourself a lot of time and effort.

Micro420 · 01-13-2005, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andrew Benton
This will install glib in it's default location, /usr/local, so you need to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. But that's not the end of it. You're going to need to set about half a dozen CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS and stuff to force atk, pango and gtk to link against the things you've installed in /usr/local and stop them linking to the old libraries you have in /usr/lib. Reading this may help.

I did read that GNOME link and it confused me as I don't know why they installed GTK in /opt, or what the heck all those other things are (CPPFLAHGS, LDFLAGS). I went into my /opt directory and there isn't anything there. I thought it was odd to play it in the /opt directory. I will try the prefix=/usr and see what happens.

foo_bar_foo · 01-13-2005, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by reddazz
It would probably be easier, to

$./configure --prefix=/usr

yea this will overwrite old glib and stuff and fix the conflict but you might end up with all your apps that use glib gtk2 broken and in need of recompiling

reddazz · 01-13-2005, 05:06 PM

Never had that problem, but maybe it's coz I tend to upgrade glib and gtk at the same time and usually in text mode.

__J · 01-13-2005, 05:11 PM

Whenever I upgrade something on the base system, I try to always install it in the same prefix it came out of. I think it keeps the system cleaner ( as in not having gnome and its deps all over the file system)
and is just my preference.

ps -- When you configure pango make sure it list Xft as a backend before you build it.

Micro420 · 01-13-2005, 09:14 PM

Thanks for all your help, guys! I did ./configure --prefix=/usr and I did not have any more errors. I managed to install GTK+2.6.1 WITHOUT libtiff. I hope this was okay for me to do?

*** Should I have done ./configure --prefix=/usr for GTK+2.6.1, also? I just did a default ./configure for GTK+2.6.1. Will this create problems?

foo_bar_foo · 01-14-2005, 12:24 AM

i would put glib gtk+ atk and pango all in /usr
if that's where thry were to begin with
look in /usr/lib
it's ok to leave out optional dependancies like libtiff
as long as no behaviour you need is missing
if later you find you need libtiff just go back and redoit

Micro420 · 01-14-2005, 02:05 AM

So I installed gtk+ 2.6.1 using ./configure --prefix=/usr

Everything seemed to go fine, but when I try to ./configure this program called smpeg, I get this:

checking for gtk-config... (cached) no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.1... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.

I typed

Code:

locate gtk-config

but it does not exist. Now what?

reddazz · 01-14-2005, 02:38 AM

Did you do, "ldconfig" as root, when you had finished installing GTK. Also, smpeg seems to be asking for gtk1.x and not gtk 2.x. You may need to have both installed coz some programs have not been ported to gtk2.

Micro420 · 01-14-2005, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by reddazz
Did you do, "ldconfig" as root, when you had finished installing GTK. Also, smpeg seems to be asking for gtk1.x and not gtk 2.x. You may need to have both installed coz some programs have not been ported to gtk2.

I just ran ldconfig as root just now and tried to compile the program, sdmpeg and got the same error. Perhaps you are right in that it is looking for an older version of GTK... 1.2.1! That's pretty old, isn't it? LOL

__J · 01-14-2005, 07:37 AM

thats what it's looking for. But theres alot of apps out there which are gtk-1.2.x only (like reddazz posted they are not ported yet ( and some will never be)).