I'm currently having trouble trying to install colord on a slackware64 14.2 system. colord-1.4.3 requires a minimum of glib2-2.5.6 to install correctly but slackware 14.2 only comes with glib2-2.46.2 which is making it difficult to install colord.

I've tried downloading the source files for glib2-2.6.0 and creating a package to install with using makepkg and then using installpkg to install the new package, but the installation of colord does not recognize the new installation of glib2 that I installed and still shows the version of glib2 as 2.46.2.

What do I need to do to be able to upgrade glib2 so that colord will be able to install correctly?

Thank you!

Upgrading of GLIB2 is a very risky endeavor and probably will broke many packages from your system because it has a fundamental role.

I suggest you instead to abandon the idea to install this colord-1.4.3

That's it. Not everything can be installed in a given operating system.

You should use colord-1.3.5, which is available at SlackBuilds.org.

glib2-2.46.2 is later than the minimum requirement of glib2-2.5.6 by 41 minor versions (20 stable minor versions), so it should work fine. What exactly is the difficulty you encounter with glib2-2.64.2? In particular, can you give the error messages that you are getting: they probably have nothing to do with glib.

Edit: The glib dependency for colord-1.4.3 according to meson.build is 2.45.8, so that should be satisfied by slackware-14.2, so that shouldn't be your problem (I am not saying it isn't, just that it shouldn't be).

I have colord-1.4.2 installed in slackware-current, and it works fine. Possibly the OP's problem is that it uses the meson build system. Does that come with slackware-14.2? If not he can probably compile meson/ninja with the slackbuild which comes with slackware-current. But from his post it looks as if the problem is something else: who knows, he needs to say what errors he is getting.

[QUOTE=chrisVV;5893156But from his post it looks as if the problem is something else: who knows, he needs to say what errors he is getting.[/QUOTE]

HE explicitly mentions "colord-1.4.3 requires a minimum of glib2-2.5.6". Seemed a pretty clear statement to me.

I think you are missing the point. First, that is not a statement of what error he gets, and secondly it cannot possibly be the source of his problem because glib2-2.46.2 meets the requirement for a minimum of glib2-2.5.6. The very topic of his posting contains a contradiction ("colord requires glib2-2.5.6 or greater but slackware 14.2 only ships with glib2-2.46.2").

Plainly his problem is something else. Without knowing what errors he gets it is not possible to say what.

As a side issue, it is not in fact correct that colord-1.4.3 requires glib2-2.5.6. That version would be completely inadequate. It requires glib2-2.45.8, as I said, which is also satisfied by slackware-14.2.

glibc2 is not the problem of OP.

Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.46.2

it calls for it. you may want to edit it to call for yours. It is a configure script and he was using his. glibc does not care what you are compiling. edit the config. Your not building against an ABI ok. it is from source.