RHEL 7 distribution compatibility

chaosvn · 01-17-2019, 10:55 AM

Hi all, I'm new here.
I am currently using RHEL 6.10 and transitioning to RHEL 7 soon. Some of my GUI developments are developed using Glade v2.6.8. My question is: Is Glade v2.6.8 compatible with RHEL 7? Do I need to install additional libraries or dependencies?
I went to the Redhat website and looked up the list of application compatibility guide but did not see anything related to Glade.

ehartman · 01-17-2019, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaosvn

Is Glade v2.6.8 compatible with RHEL 7? Do I need to install additional libraries or dependencies?

By default RHEL 7 uses Glade 3.22, which is dependant on GTK+3.
For compatibility reasons they also supply glade3-3.8, which offers support for GTK+2 (up to 2.24), as an upgrade path to adapt to glade 3
Glade 2 isn't supported anymore, neither by them or (already since 2007) by gnome.

Code:

LATEST-IS-2.12.2            2007-12-09 18:46  2.8M

(from the gnome ftp site).

chaosvn · 01-18-2019, 09:01 AM

Thanks for the reply. So is it possible to use what we developed using Glade 2 in RHEL 7? Or we have to rewrite them using Glade 3?

I looked further on the RedHat website and they have the following:
gtk2-engines package is no more included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
gtk2-engines comes from EPEL repository.

Does that mean if we install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) 7, it would support GTK2?