On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 06:32, Gerald Wong wrote: > Ok, this is what i've gathered: > glib-2.2.1 is included with RedHat 9 > It can't be uninstalled because it fails the dependencies check Right. RedHat 9 comes with both 1.2.10 and 2.2.1. Glib 2 is quite an overhaul from GLib 1, so you need both installed to run both old GTK 1 apps and new GTK 2 apps. The package name for GLib 2 is glib2, not glib, so if you're trying to find the version with rpm, you should be doing 'rpm -qi glib2'. And you can't just remove GLib. Every GTK app, including every Gnome app, depends on it. > How do i overwrite it with a glib compiled from source? First of all, you should really update the RPM database after installing GLib from source, unless you don't plan on using RPMs anymore. Having an inconsistancy on such a fundamental library is not good. 99.999% of the time somebody gets errors like the ones you gave, it's because it's installed in the wrong place. GLib could be installed in any number of places (/usr, /usr/local, /opt/gnome, etc.) and I don't know what its default is. RedHat likes this stuff to be in /usr. You probably did: ./configure make make install which very may have put GLib in /usr/local. You should try ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install which will put it in /usr. If this is the problem, you probably want to remove the GLib installed in the wrong place (likely /usr/local). It won't hurt anything, but it's wasting disk space. To do that, you need only make uninstall. ./configure make uninstall Please make sure to rerun configure without the --prefix option so that it will uninstall from the default prefix (again, likely /usr/local), and not from /usr, where you've just installed it. In fact, just be completely safe and remove the directory you used to build GLib in /usr, then do make uninstall from a fresh untarring. You'll be very unhappy if you find yourself without GLib. > Don't worry, i've solved the problem. Just wait for the RPM to come out. Probably wise. If you don't feel like waiting for an RPM officially blessed by RedHat, you can go to NyQuist's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful collection of RPMs. He maintains a repository of all the latest Gnome-related RPMs, all built on RedHat 9. GLib 2.2.2 is on there. http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html Did I mention it's wonderful? -- Shaun
