GTK+ and Glib installation

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:09:09PM -0800, Chen, Douglas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please forgive me if this is not the right forum to post question regarding library 
> installation.
> 
> I tried to install a copy of Gtk+-2.6 in attempt to make Acrobat7 work on a Redhat
> 2.4.21-15.EL (WS release 3) machine and got error message during ./configure
> 
> It complained 
> 
> "for BASE_DEPENDENCIES ... Requested 'glib-2.0>=2.6.0' but version of GLib is 2.2.3
> 
> I then downloaded glib-2.8.5 and installed it (use default configure, make, and make install)
> and tried to run ./configure under gtk+-2.6 again, but still got the same error message.

Alas, rpm doesn't care what's actually installed, but what the rpm
database says is installed.  So what you need to do is find an
RPM of a suitable version and use that to upgrade (rpm -Uvh
<package>).

I don't know if you have yum, but if you do, you could

  yum update glib

> Do I need to do something more or set some variables in order to make it work. You help
> is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Douglas

Cheers,
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