installing GTK+ 2.4.2

Vindane · 06-05-2004, 02:48 PM

Hi, I'm trying to install GTK+2.4.2 as I'm needing an up-to-date version of GTK+ to install Gaim 0.78. Anyway, I made sure that I have all the dependencies installed and updated but I get this after "./configure":

checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0... Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0' but version of GLib is 2.2.3

configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 atk >= 1.0.1 pango >= 1.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

This happens at about the end of the ./configure action. I just installed GLIb 2.4.2 right before attempting this install. Does it matter how I installed the libraries? I copied them from my home directory over to /tmp and unpacked and installed them from there. Will where I'm installing them FROM affect how the system can find them?

Thanks!!

Andrew Benton · 06-05-2004, 03:07 PM

No, in this case it doesn't matter where you installed them from, what matters is whether you ran ./configure with the option --prefix=/someplace eg

./configure --prefix=/usr # that's what I almost always choose
./configure --prefix=/opt
or somesuch location. If you didn't set --prefix=/wherever then the packages will install in their default location, /usr/local. So when you run the configure script for the next package it will not find the new things you've installed as the first place it will look is in /usr where it will find the versions that were installed with Slack or Mandrake. You need to set some variables to point to the new libraries

Code:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"

If you're installing these things somewhere else then alter those paths to fit. If you close the shell it will forget and you'll need to enter those variables again the next time you start work.

Vindane · 06-05-2004, 04:06 PM

Thanks alot! I just went back and reinstalled the 3 libraries that GTK+ was needing with "./configure -prefix=/usr" and it installed just fine.

But one more question while we're talking about installation of source...
When I unpack the tarball packages in my /tmp directory, can I go ahead and delete the directories when I'm finished installing? Does the program ever refer back to those makefiles or anything?

Thanks!

Andrew Benton · 06-05-2004, 05:20 PM

Yes, you can delete the source folders after you've installed them. There are some things that need the source keep around but they're the odd exception. I should have said that there are risks with installing things in /usr, if you're installing over old versions of shared libraries it may break apps that were linked against those shared libraries. You may be lucky and get away with it but in general I wouldn't recommend it. I hope it all works for you.