I am trying to install xmms on mandrake 9.2 and of course i am having dependency problems. every time i run ./configure for anything i am trying to install i get varying different errors. with xmms i am getting:

checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***

so i tried to install GLIB 1.2.10 but it extracted to the current directory wich is my download directory where should GLIB be extracted to ??? thanks for any help.

Make sure you run configure as ./confogure --prefix=/usr

Mandrake installs GTK, GLIB and all its other fans into the /usr directory. You also need the devel packages, too. You can install these via the MDK Control Panel (software management). Just search for dev or something similar.

Good luck.

Thanks, I fixed that but now i get 1.2.2 not found but it is installed and i just installed 1.2.10 and it still says not found. I assume because its looking for the earlier version not the newer one but it says it found 1.2.2 but then it says its not installed??

How do i fix this? I dont know how to set envionment variables or remove the older version. Thanks

checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2...
*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.2, but GLIB (1.2.10)
*** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLIB. 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 glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
*** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file config.cache
*** before re-running configure
no
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***

Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? I cannot install the devel packages from cd every time i try i get errors that i cannot copy and past cuz they are in dialog boxes and they are no help anyway.