Re: Whence 'gtk2' ?

[chuck gelm <chuck@xxxxxxxx>]

Henning Nielsen Lund wrote:

> Henning Nielsen Lund wrote:
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> > chuck gelm wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Henning Nielsen Lund wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > What do you have on your computer?
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > Thanks, Henning Nielsen Lund:
> > >
> > > I have added 'gtk-list' back into the address.
> > >      
> > Ups, always forget ;O)
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Slackware9.1 'everything' installed from packages
> > > a, ap, d, n, f, g, k, x, and xap.
> > >
> > >      
> > Slackware 9.1 does use GNOME 2.4.0 ... GNOME 2.4.0 does include
> > GLib-2.2.3, Pango-1.2.5, ATK-1.4.0 and GTK+-2.2.4
> >
> > So there should be no problem with GTK+
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > what they mean with gtk2 is gtk+ >= gtk+-2.0.0
> > > >
> > > > If you have GNOME2 installed you allready have it ...
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > How can I tell?
> > >
> > > My window manager is Gnome and when I right click on
> > > a blank place on the title bar and select 'about Gnome',
> > > it indicates version 2.4.0, but what does this have to do
> > > with 'gtk2' or 'gtk+' ?  What is 'Pango' ?  What is 'Glib' ?
> > >
> > > :-|  Chuck
> > >
> > >      
> > Gnome uses GTK+ (Gimp Tool Kit), GTK+2 uses Pango (layout and
> > rendering of internationalized text) and ATK (Accessibility Tool Kit)
> > and Glib (the lowlevel core library).
> >
> > You don't need to upgrade them, to use Bluefish. But what you need to
> > install is libpcre, it should be on CD2 of Slackware 9.1
> >    
>
> Made a little search ...  ./l/pcre-4.4-i486-1.tgz
Thanks,Henning Nielsen Lund:

I found:

/var/log/packages/pcre-4.4-i486-1

So, I think that I have everything necessary to run Bluefish.

Thanks everyone.

Regards, Chuck

> Best regards,
> hnl_dk - Henning Nielsen Lund
>
>  
>
> > > > But you could upgrade to the newest version:
> > > >
> > > > Glib-2.4.0 --> Pango-1.4.0 --> GTK+-2.4.0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > chuck gelm wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Howdy, Everyone:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have found an application that I want to try; Bluefish.
> > > > > http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
> > > > >
> > > > > The documentation for Bluefish says that it requires 'gtk2'.
> > > > > "It requires gtk2 <http://www.gtk.org/>, libpcre
> > > > > <http://www.pcre.org/> and (optional) libaspell
> > > > > <http://aspell.sourceforge.net/> for spell checking and (also
> > > > > optional) gnome-vfs <http://www.gnome.org/> for remote files."
> > > > >
> > > > > I found this mail list at http://gtk.org, but there seems to
> > > > > be references only to 'gtk+'.
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I obtain 'gtk2' ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Chuck Gelm
> > > > >          


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