i didn't know were i should put this but since its "software" i guessed i'd just place it here;

i have a program im trying to install that requires me to update serveral services, GTK ATK Glib and PKG-CONFIG,
but as i install these programs, i get several errors, mostly all saying that the others arent available, im running the ./configure, make, make install...
and they arent apparently installing, or maybe they need to be in a certain folder... i dont know 9_9

could someone give me an explination on how, when and in what order i install these, im using Redhat linux 7.2, and i havent upgraded the kernel.

these are the programs:
Pkg-config 0.15.0
atk-1.9.0
glib-2.6.4
gtk-2.6.7
pango-1.8.0

i tried googling this but im just too stupid to find anything ~_~ plzzzz help...

Order is:
Pkg-config 0.15.0
glib-2.6.4
pango-1.8.0
atk-1.9.0
gtk-2.6.7

But beyond that I'm afraid I can't help much, I'm having problems installing pango at the mo... I think it is just ./configure make make install as usual. but with glib make sure that your computer knows where the new installation is. There are quite helpful threads in this forum if you look.

Hope it helps!

I would add --prefix=/usr to each ./configure. In my experience it makes life easier.

And that just solved MY problem, thanks HK!

./configure make make install is rarely what you want with libraries, you need to install it to the right place and preferably make packages of these builds since they are likely to get upgraded.

yeah, im having trouble with Pango, im recieving this error:

configure: error: Xft Pango backend is required for x11 target

whenever i try to install GTK, could someone tell me were i went wrong?

in order, i installed all the files, using ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, make install. and the only one to give me trouble was gtk ~_~

might want to check out the README for pango, it covers the need to build the xft backend.

look in /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig and make sure there is a file called xft.pc, then:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

you will have to rebuild pango, at the end of ./configure <options> make sure it lists xft as a backend to be built.

if your distro doesn't have xft.pc in /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig, make sure you have your X11 devel package installed or you can get xft from here:

http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/

ok... now pango telling me i dont have GLIB installed... *eye twitch*

You should upgrade your distribution, don't try and upgrade GTK+ yourself, you're unlikely to succeed. Upgrade Linux instead (or alternatively ask the authors of the program you are trying to run to make it run with older GTK+ versions).