This is surely one of those "It's easy if you know how" things....

I am setting up the Gnome/GTK development environment. Using the package manager (Mepis 6), I installed the wrapper package, which put all the headers in /usr/include/gtk+-2.0.
Later, looking for the gtk-demo application, I wound up at the gtk website and found that the current version of gtk+ is 2.10.11. I downloaded this and extracted it--it appears to include all the header files that I got thru the package manager.

Browsing thru a few .h files, I find nothing to associate the file with version 2.10.11--or any other version.

So....other than doing a clean install, how do you know what version of gtk you are using?

hi

try

sorry

no need for the back ticks at the command line.

u probably knew that anyway.

Thanks....

It turns out that this does not work on my office system where the basic gtk came with the system (Ubuntu). At home, after installing the development files, the command works.

I'm inferring that pkg-config works only for things installed with the package manager.

well I pretty sure that I installed gtk-+2.0 manually.
I remember because I had trouble with all the dependencies.

gtk+-2.0.pc is installed as part of gtk+-2.0

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/x111.html