Hi,

I'm installing the latest GTK+ version and it's dependencies. I have earlier version of the dependencies and they are conflicting with the new ones when I try to install them (apparent from messages I get during configuration and installation).

These earlier versions would have to be from my Red Hat 9.0 distribution, so I don't know much about them. I could find the directories where they exists, but I'd like to be sure to completely clean them off. There must be a cleaner way of removing them.

How do I locate a particular component (like pkg-config or glib) and completely clean it off so that I can install the new version?

Thanks for any help.

"How do I locate a particular component (like pkg-config or glib) and completely clean it off so that I can install the new version?"

The location of all of the components is stored in the rpm data base. So you completely clean the package by removing the package using rpm:

rpm -e glib

Since you know you will have dependency problems you first test the removal:

rpm --test -e glib

That gives you the dependency errors. Then you test removing the dependencies. Eventually you end up with a tree of everything that needs to be removed in order to remove glib. See:
man rpm

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Steve Stites

Thanks - Since I'm removing glib to install the newest version, do I really need to worry about the dependency issues?

Along the same lines, would I need to remake all the packages that use the older glib after the new one is installed? There are quite a few and nearly all the dependencies came with my distribution, but I do have the source CD's in addition to the install CD's.

Scott

"Since I'm removing glib to install the newest version, do I really need to worry about the dependency issues?"

Partially. Some of the dependencies may have to be upgraded to a later version to remain compatible with the latest glib version.

"Along the same lines, would I need to remake all the packages that use the older glib after the new one is installed? "

Probably not.

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Steve Stites

Thanks Steve. Well, this will probably turn into a nice learning experience, so I'll get started... : )

If you're trying to remove gtk-1.2 to install something like 2.6 then don't bother because they are totally different libraries that can happily co exist and you don't need to remove 1.2 before installing a 2.x version.

Well, actually the problem I'm trying to get around is with glib. I can install it just fine, but then when I go to atk (part of gtk) and install it, the atk config haults because it sees that I have glib 2.8.3 and 2.0. The message I get says to remove the older glib (or edit a resource file, which I didn't want to do).

The whole thing started mainly because I simply need gtkcombobox.h and gtkcelllayout.h so that the gtk-meta process can build gtk. My version of glib is old enough to not have these two header files.

I'm open to any suggestions, but I'm trying to keep things as clean and tidy as possible if it doesn't cause too much extra work.

Scott