On 28 Oct 2002 17:58:58 +0100 Yongtao Yang wrote:

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:47, zentara wrote:

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Hi, How do I get GTK-2.0 packages to compile with suse 8.1. It really annoys me that suse never gets it setup right.

I have the gtk and gtk2 packages installed, but packages that require gtk-2.0 give an error:

Have you installed pkgconfig? i.e. what "rpm -qa | grep pkgconfig" shows? Also remember to check the gtk2-devel package.

Where is the gtk2-devel rpm , I can't find it. I have it working, now, I built the gtk2 package from scratch, and I also needed to install pkg-config from scratch. There is a gtk-devel which I had installed.

I have just compiled some packages involving gtk2 without problem.

Man this yast2 is becoming a nightmare. I needed to upgrade my curl to the latest version. So I removed the curl rpm and installed the latest curl from source. Now, everytime I install ANY software, yast2 will reinstall it's curl rpm. Which I then need to remove and then reinstall the one I have from source. I uncheck "auto-dependency-checking", but it will still install curl all on it's own, totally messing things up. yast2 has become a nightmare, I think I will be going to Slackware for my next upgrade. I can't understand why I have to leave the curl rpm "installed", and sneak behind Yast2's back to manually replace the curl libraries with my own. Talk about a time-wasting un-professional tool. It just isn't saving time anymore, it's consuming time. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:27, zentara wrote:

On 28 Oct 2002 17:58:58 +0100 Yongtao Yang wrote:

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On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:47, zentara wrote:

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Hi, How do I get GTK-2.0 packages to compile with suse 8.1. It really annoys me that suse never gets it setup right.

I have the gtk and gtk2 packages installed, but packages that require gtk-2.0 give an error:

Have you installed pkgconfig? i.e. what "rpm -qa | grep pkgconfig" shows? Also remember to check the gtk2-devel package.

Where is the gtk2-devel rpm , I can't find it. I have it working, now, I built the gtk2 package from scratch, and I also needed to install pkg-config from scratch. There is a gtk-devel which I had installed.

It should be in the same place where you install gtk2, for example: ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/SuSE-Linux/suse/i386/8.1/suse/i586/gtk2-devel-2.0.6-71.i586.rpm and ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/SuSE-Linux/suse/i386/8.1/suse/i586/pkgconfig-0.12.0-97.i586.rpm

Man this yast2 is becoming a nightmare. I needed to upgrade my curl to the latest version. So I removed the curl rpm and installed the latest curl from source. Now, everytime I install ANY software, yast2 will reinstall it's curl rpm. Which I then need to remove and then reinstall the one I have from source. I uncheck "auto-dependency-checking", but it will still install curl all on it's own, totally messing things up. yast2 has become a nightmare, I think I will be going to Slackware for my next upgrade.

Why not try apt-get, I am quite happy with it. Yongtao Yang

zentara writes:

Nope. It's not on the 8.1 professional cd set. I searched the archive for that file gtk2-devel-2.0.6-71.i586.rpm and it isn't there. There isn't anything with "gtk2-devel" in the cdset.

Also YOU does not install it when updating the rest of the gtk2 packages. gtk2-devel is marked with a 'square' and cannot be selected for installing/updating.