On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 20:19 +1100, Andrew Dunkin wrote: > I tried to install Adobe reader with following result; > > [user@myplace user]$ rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > gtk2 >= 2.4.0 is needed by AdobeReader_enu-7.0.8-1 > > I searched the available packages on my Mandrake 10 system. > Packages containing gtk2 in their name were numerous. > The Web is full of variations of gtk+2, which gtk+2 application do I > need? You must stick to packages that are specifically for your distro and version. Unfortunately installing the latest version of GTK from source will not solve this problem either. Compiling GTK from source will cause you problems. If you insist on compiling from source you must know what you're doing and be able to deal with conflicts that inevitably will arise between the system-install libraries in /usr/lib and the libraries you compile yourself in /usr/local/lib. And like I say, even if you try to do this, this won't help the AdobeReader rpm because a program compiled from source will not tell the rpm database about itself and thus rpm will still complain. > > I THINK I need GTK+2.10.6 as per the following; > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-October/msg00003.html > > The instructions for installation were at; > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html > > I have 2 chances of making this work, neither are good. > Does anyone know where I can get an rpm file or a know of simpler way of > getting gtk+2.0 installed? Probably a better place to ask about this is on the Mandriva mailing lists. Given that your distribution is now old, your best bet is likely to simply upgrade to the latest version of Mandriva. I once compiled the latest gtk libraries as RPMS for my FC3 box, and that worked, but I had a lot of dependency issues (had to rebuild more than just the gtk rpms). It's quite a pain. > Apparently I also have to be careful not to erase gtk+1.x as other > applications on my system may need it. You don't need to worry about that as gtk+1 is packaged separately and the library files can coexist nicely. > I guess I have to alter path settings as well??? One option is to install GTK2 2.10 to a special prefix. For example (don't forget to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /opt/gtk2/lib/pkgconfig after the first module is compiled and installed): ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk2 Then after building all the requisite parts of gtk2, you can write a script to lauch Adobe Reader (installed from tarball and not rpm to avoid the rpm complaint about gtk) by setting the following variable: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gtk2/lib and then running the real binary. > Is there an installation tutorial out there somewhere for newbies? The generic instructions (which you mentioned) for building from source are pretty good. However they cannot take into account distribution specific issues. But as I mentioned before it is just simply not recommended, especially on a binary package system that supplies system versions of the GTK libraries. Problems caused by doing so are the cause of a lot of pain and frustration on the list, both on the part of the people trying to compile, and on the part of the developers and people giving the help. If you are willing to take risks, here is how you can replace the system libraries with ones compiled from source. Just use "--prefix=/usr" as the configure option for each of the gtk packages. Then you'll have to either install Adobe using the tarball or force the rpm. Be warned that things may break that are expecting the older version of gtk2. > > Installing the latest Adobe reader is becoming bigger than Ben Hur! As long as the basic requirement is met (a binary rpm of gtk2 >= 2.4 is installed), it is fairly straightforward. And if Adobe chose to do so, they could package Adobe Reader such that it provided its own gtk2 libraries like vmware does. Unfortunately Adobe doesn't really understand linux all that well. Michael > > > > > ********NSW Fire Brigades Confidentiality Notice******** > > This electronic transmission, including any attachments, may > contain information which is confidential and/or privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any > dissemination, copying or action taken in reliance of its > contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. > > ************************************************ > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
