From: Ted Parks (th.parks_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 20:45:54 EST
Chris,
I sincerely appreciate your help. As you apparently surmised, I am not
an experienced Linux user, but I am eager to learn and trust my
abilities to do so.
I am trying to build Abiword from source because no rpm package of the
2.0 release exists for RedHat 8.0. As I recall from what has proven a
lengthy process, I was trying to build pango in order to upgrade gtk.
When I try to configure Abiword, I get the following error:
checking GTHREAD_LIBS... -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0
checking for
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0
libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
configure: error
I believe gtk+-1.2.10-22 is the version currently installed on my
system. The "build" document from Abiword says that the application
requires gtk+-2.0. From your last posting, I sense that I need to
install glib 2.0, not 2.2, for gtk+-2.0. The expression "environmental
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH," however, is unclear to me. How do I change
this "variable"? Where is it?
As I wrote above, I appreciate your taking the time to respond. Though
new to open source, I believe in the concept, as I understand it. If
open source is truly open, it seems to me, it will have to do more than
preach to the choir of converted experts. The only way someone like me
can learn it is to depend on the experience--and goodness--of others.
Thanks,
Ted
Chris Vine wrote:
>On Sunday 16 November 2003 5:53 pm, Chris Vine wrote:
>
>
>
>>glib/gtk+2.0 and glib/gtk+2.2 are not parallel installable (nor are other
>>relevant libraries such as pango-1.0 and pango-1.2). If you do not want to
>>delete the old versions, you can do what you want by installing updated
>>versions of the relevant libraries in a different directory and forcing the
>>correct library version to be loaded by setting the environmental variable
>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH (to the directory with the correct version in) in the shell
>>you launch abiword from (and compile it in), but I fear getting this
>>correctly compiled and working will be more than you can manage.
>>
>>However, I do not really understand how you have managed to get into this
>>position. I am not very familiar with abiword and I have decided not to
>>use it for other reasons (and I have not yet got round to unsubscribing
>>from the mailing list), but I have just run the configure script for
>>abiwork-2.0.1 and it only requires version 2.0 of glib and gtk+, and not
>>the minimum version of 2.1.3 that you report above.
>>
>>Chris.
>>
>>
>
>Ah, I think I now deduce what you are trying to do. You are trying to upgrade
>from pango-1.0 to pango-1.2 and that requires glib-2.2. But why are you
>upgrading pango - what is wrong with GNOME-2 as you already have it? Or if
>you are trying to build GNOME-2 yourself, why are you installing some bits
>from GNOME-2.0 and other bits from GNOME-2.2?
>
>Chris.
>
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