Linux d4x needs gtk, which needs glib, which needs pkgconfig...

Yet, I've installed glib-2.2.0 at least fifteen times now, but it's still not getting it!!
It was installed to the standard prefix, so I don't know what's going wrong. The glib install seems to go perfectly, yet, when I browse to /usr/local/ it's not actually there?

First I was trying to install d4x, but it needed a newer version of gtk than I had. So I downloaded the latest gtk, but that needed glib 2.1.4 or better, so I downloaded glib 2.2.0, but that needed pkg-config 1.4 or better...

pkg-config 1.5 has installed fine, no problems. glib, however, doesn't seem to install properly.

All versions are *.tar.gz btw, I couldn't find a recent enough version of glib in *.rpm

I'm doing:

Code:

gzip -cd glib-2.2.0.tar.gz | tar xfv -
./configure

And that's as far as I get before it kicks the error.

Is there anywhere inparticular that I should be unpacking the tars too, then running from?

Please help!

 

Are you sure atk and pango are the required versions? And check your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to make sure it is in fact pointing to the proper place.

Failing that, it looks as though your Linux has gone the way of Ubermich's, it couldn't find his glib

Wai ?

 

Yeah, I had this problem in Mandrake.
I went to Redhat and haven't had the problem since...

 

This is Redhat
Version 7.3

 

Then go to Gentoo


Maybe someone else here can help, but it seems that Linux not finding it's glib seems to be a fatal wound, and requires a re-install. I dunno.

 

try
'
tar xvzf glib-***.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install
'

if that doesnt do it for you, check the requirements on glib...i installed it perfectly but there was one or 2 things i needed for it to install right, i got an error when installing it without the other requirement, and i honestly cant remember what it was...but it works now

but yea...if that doesnt work u may definately need a reinstall
i suggest Slackware8.1

 

I would try something else, but we use RH7.3 at uni, so I like to keep things uniform, just for simplicity's sake.

bee; I've tried doing tar xvzf... as well, but still get the error (and doesn't that do the same thing as gzip & tar?).

<EdiT>
Dunno what's up with the font tag :\

 

same thing yes, yet different program
ive had problems using gzip in the past, yet tar worked fine, so i use tar all the time..