meekerthanthou Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 (edited) hello all, I'm trying to compile the bittorrent client, and I read that I needed wxpython, and as I was perusing the python site, I decided that I should get the newest gtk and glib. I went to the site and downloaded the source, and was able to install glib fin, but then I went to install gtk and it turned up this error when I ran ./configure: checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8... *** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.9, but GLIB (1.2.10) *** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best *** to remove the old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the error *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is *** required on your system. *** If glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG *** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file config.cache *** before re-running configure no configure: error: *** GLIB 1.2.8 or better is required. The latest version of GLIB *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. So my question is.. how do I remove my old glib? (it's the one that came with Mandrake 9.2) I've heard you can't remove it, but just point gtk to the new version? Thanks Edited March 6, 2004 by meekerthanthou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 I went to the site and downloaded the source, and was able to install glib IMHO that was a bad idea, if you want the ultimate new version of something you should first look into cooker and install it from there, using rpm and satisfying all the possible dependences. IMHO you should go right now and install the cooker vesion, that will replace the old one and save you many head aches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 I went to the site and downloaded the source, and was able to install glib IMHO that was a bad idea, if you want the ultimate new version of something you should first look into cooker and install it from there, using rpm and satisfying all the possible dependences. IMHO you should go right now and install the cooker vesion, that will replace the old one and save you many head aches. I second that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meekerthanthou Posted March 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Ok, where would I find that? I looked at cooker's website and all they have is a complete distro, and rpmfind only turned up reall old versions of glib that I have already... also, how would I go about uninstalling the glib 1.2.9 I installed from source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 How I would have done is to download the glib rpm from cooker; once the rpm is at home I will atempt to install it and see which dependences require, then I will sistematically download and try to install the downloaded rpms (you can make a script to automate this).You may reach a point where you know that the dependences aren't critical. At this point you can force the installation safely. This way you'll have a stable system w/o upgrading to 10.0 (or almost) Others might suggest to use urpmi which will automate all the process but by sure it also has the risk of suffering a huge and maybe not desirable upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meekerthanthou Posted March 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 thanks everyone this has been really helpful, I've got a course of action to take now... :) do I need to take out the glib I installed from source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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