On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:01:12PM +0530, Viraj Chatterjee wrote: > Though Karina's problem got solved 'cos she didn't need to install the > latest GTK+ package, but this confusion about Xft and Xft2 and which one is > required and where to get a good installation of GTK+ 2.6 is really a pain > at times. If I'm wring here, please correct me but I understand that Xft2 is simply version 2.0 of Xft. See: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft for more details. > I've failed to get an installation of GTK+ correctly on debian 'cos of the > same reason. On debian testing you shouldn't have to worry about this, since GTK+ is already version 2.6 If you still need to build you own version of GTK+, Xft version 2.0 is for debian testing packaged in the package libxft-dev. Not sure if you need libpango1.0-dev installed as well. BTW, for debian there is a very handy program called apt-file (not installed by default, you need to 'apt-get install apt-file'). This will return which package to install to get a certain file, so if I knew that I was missing a library for example and I knew a filename that is part of that library (let's say xft.pc) I just do a apt-file search xft.pc which will return libxft-dev. Read the manpage first though, apt-file needs to be setup so that it has a current index locally of what's available. > Everything installs succesfully, till I get to GTK+ which exits with the > "configure: error: Pango Xft backend required for x11 target". And, I have > Xft and freetype installed on the system. I just verified that GTK+ 2.6.4 configures just fine on my debian testing machine. There shouldn't be any magic required here. -- Daniel Nilsson _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
