I've installed glib 2.8.0 but when I install pango (for gtk+ so that I can install audacity and rhythmbox) I get this error:

[/QUOTE]checking for cairo >= 0.5.2-head... Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.5.7 gobject-2.0 gmodule-no-export-2.0... Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.5.7' but version of GLib is 2.4.2[/QUOTE]

And what's this PGK_CONFIG_PATH about?
Thanks,
CPUFreak91

it looks like you need "cairo". you can get it at linuxpackages.net
that should work for part of your problem.
about glib... how did you install it?

You need to build the following GTK+ 2.8.x softwares in this order : glib2, atk, cairo, pango and gtk+2. You can find archives to create your own Slackware Linux packages at the following locations :

• glib2 : Library of C routines
• atk : Accessibility toolkit
• cairo : Multi-platform 2D graphics library
• pango : Library for layout and rendering of i18n text
• gtk+2 : GTK+ graphical toolkit library

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LiNuCe

This guy is the man! His answer should work.

Thanks alot. Yes, BTW I have cairo installed and I forgot to mention that.
I supposed Slack packages will be easier to install than compiling by source.

I use a utility called checkinstall to build all of my packages from source.
90% of the time i will do this:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var (I use these options plus any other package specific options because they seem to work best with slackware )
# make
# checkinstall (checkinstall will give you some options then build a slackware pkg in the current directory for you to install)

For those who are interested, GLIB 2.8.4 and GTK+ 2.8.7 have been released so I have updated my GTK+ packages and SlackBuild scripts for Slackware Linux :

• glib2 : Library of C routines
• atk : Accessibility toolkit
• cairo : Multi-platform 2D graphics library
• pango : Library for layout and rendering of i18n text
• gtk+2 : GTK+ graphical toolkit library

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LiNuCe

The .tgz files are corrupted, according to my installpkg errors. ;(

The easiest is simply getting the files from the Dropline project. I have done that when I installed the latest Abiword and Gnumeric. Drop into the Files section here.

I have just checked them with md5sum -c <package>.md5, gpg --verify <package>.sig and tar tvzf <package>.tgz and I did not found corrupted files. It is possible that your web browser (or your download manager) uncompresses the *.tgz file when you download them : use wget instead.

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LiNuCe

I use wget for everything except stupid javascript redirects. I downloaded it off of two different computers and I get the same error message. GNOME says that the package is null! Strange.

You can try this dl-gtk.sh script which downloads and checks all GTK+2 packages for Slackware Linux 10.1. I tried it, and it confirms that there is no corrupted package (log here). Please, don't talk about what your GNOME says, it's pointless as there is not logical link between being able to download and check (integrity, authenticity and coherence of) a Slackware package and being able to use GNOME.

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LiNuCe