Installation issues on redhat linux

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings  Pol,

Pol, Parikshit wrote:
> Thanks for that. It was company restrictions that makes me stick to
> 7.2. I am trying to get another version though. -Parik
> 
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: Getting started
> with Red Hat Linux Subject: Re: Installation issues on redhat linux
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 12:24 -0700, Pol, Parikshit wrote:
> 
>> Hello Folks, I am trying to install Eclipse 3.1 on my Linux desktop
>> ( Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) ). As a part of the
>> dependencies I was trying to install gtk+-2.8.4. While trying to
>> run ./configure it gives me the following error:
>> 
>> configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.7.1    atk >=
>>  1.0.1    pango >= 1.9.0    cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met.
>> 
>> I just installed glib-2.8.2, pango-1.10.0 and atk-1.10.1. But
>> somehow pkg-config is not getting it. It is showing the following
>> packages when I do a list-all.


Do you mind if i ask how did you installed those packages ???


There are two ways that you can install a package .

The first one is through the use of the source code . Which means that
you download the source coded , compile it and then install the programm .
This method has a small "problem" , it doesn't inform the RPM Database .
So unless you do some extra stuff ( I don't know exactly what ) the system
will be unaware of what you did .
  The second way is to install it through the use of the rpm command
( that's what pkg-config is actually doing ). If you use this method , 
things
are more simple .


Kind Regards,
    Kostas