rpmdrake and gtk2

Jiawen · 09-26-2003, 01:48 AM

I'm having problems with rpmdrake and gtk2. I want to install scim (a Chinese input method), but every time I do, I get a warning:

Quote:

gtk2 = 2.2.0 is needed by scim- 0.8.1-1
Installation cancelled

I have Mandrake 9.1 installed, so I assume I have gtk2 installed as well. What's going on?

More specifically:

1) How do I find out if I have gtk2 installed? rpm -qi libgtk2 gave no response.

2) If I don't have gtk2 installed, how do I install it? What is its file name? Do I have to get it from the installation CD's or can I use rpmdrake to do the installation?

3) If I do have gtk2 installed, how do I get rpmdrake (or scim?) to recognize it?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

jschiwal · 09-26-2003, 08:59 AM

For Linux Mandrake there is a command called urpmq which you can use to query a file, and it will return which package the file is in. If I enter
urpmi gtk2 it responds libgtk+2.0_0.

Then you could su root and enter:
urpmi libgtk+2.0_0

If the package is installed, the response will be,
Everything already installed, otherwise, it will be installed.

Jiawen · 09-26-2003, 12:52 PM

Thanks for the reply!

I tried rpm -qi on gtk+2.0, and got back that I have 2.2.1 installed. However, when I tried urpmi on gtk+2.0, it said that there is no package with this name. Huh?

I've also updated my sources using urpmi.addmedia -- using the commands from Easy Urpmi. However, rpmdrake still doesn't make any mention of gtk+2.0.

Finally, when I did a urpmq gtk2, I got:

Quote:

The following packages contain gtk2: pygtk2.0-glarea libwxgtk2.5-devel eclipse-gtk2 libwxgtk2.4 pygtk2.0-libglade pygtk2.0 libwxgtk2.5 pygtk2.0-wrapper libwxgtk2.4devel pygtk2.0-devel

So, what's going on? Do I need to install one of these? I'm still rather lost.

And again -- thanks in advance for any help!

jschiwal · 10-27-2003, 05:41 PM

Sorry, I lost track of this post. Your best bet may be to do a google/linux search for libgtk+2.0_0. You may be missing a package. I'm at work know, so I can't search my disks to see which one this library package is located.
One problem I run into sometimes, is when a different version is needed for different programs.

quatsch · 10-27-2003, 06:48 PM

the easiest way to see if something is installed is to use rpmdrake-remove (the software removal thingy). Search for gtk and it will list all the packages that have gtk in their names.

You might try installing everything that is remotely gtk related.