>Hi Folks, >Could somebody please point out where I've gone wrong, I've downloaded gtk-2.8.17 and compiled/built the latest versions >of cairo, pango, atk and glib. Move to the gtk source directory and ./configure and make and everything is fine. snip >Any assistance gratefully received. >Regards >David Logan >South Australia Hi All, Thanks Archana Shah and Yeti for the pointers. I ran this as root rather than sudo and it worked. I still don't know really why this is so but gtk 2.8.17 is up and running. Thanks again _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list