running red hat prof workstation. get this error when trying to run gtkpod.
installed from an rpm. installed gtk2 previously.

any ideas appreciated...

you need to clarify *how* you installed gtk2.
rpm?
source?

all this is is an error telling you it couldn't find the gtk libs. if you installed (gtk2) from source and did the standard ./configure, make, make install then you need to add:

/usr/local/lib

to /etc/ld.so.conf and run (as root):

ldconfig

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I am pretty sure I installed it from source....but I am not positive. I will check out your suggestion and get back to you. thanks so much for the assistance.

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ok I checked and I installed from source. I tried to install again (gtk2) and I am getting this error

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.7.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

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I have installed all these library requirements so i guess I need to set the env. variable, but I dont know how.
I think the packages are installed in the directory just below my home directory. at least thats where I am seeing a lot of files related to each in a directory named after each libary package....

so how do I set this env variable path to the right way?

thanks

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so I guess I need to know where they are and how to set the path correctly.

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also when attempting to install pango...get this error...might be the same problem..
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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/.

you need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the new library pkg-config files like this (this is assuming you installed them to /usr/local):

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

the above about ldconfig still applies here.

NOTE: if you have earlier versions of these libraries that came with your base system (not gtk-1.x or glib-1.x but libraries of the same major version like gtk-2.x) still installed these will have to be removed or you will get runtime (and compile time) linker errors. There are ways around this, but if you don't want to manually manipulate all of your paths you need to remove the old libs you are upgrading.

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ok...

I found the libraries...they are where you thought they would be. I set PATH. I edited ld.so.config. ldconfig doesnt run...not found.
I am running RH workstation.

so that is problem 1...I am still getting this error after ./compile on gtk package

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.7.0... Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0' but version of GLib is 2.2.3

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.7.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
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I can't find an instance of GLib anywhere on my system.