>> A D wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello! As a new programmer I want to install multiple versions of gtk+2.0 >> My Debian Etch system already has gtk+2.8 installed. Now wanna install >> gtk+2.10. But found out that gtk+2.8 and gtk+2.10 has different >> dependencies. For an example gtk+2.8 uses cairo 1.0.2 while gtk+ 2.10 >> needs cairo 1.2.6. So if i install cairo 1.2.6 from source will it >> conflict with cairo 1.0.2? If it does is there anyway to solve this >> problem? Searched gtk mailing list but failed to find the answer. Hope >> someone here can help. Thanks for your time. >> >> --JW >> At last I've installed gtk+-2.10.14 without uninstalling gtk+-2.8. I was busy installing so sorry for late reply. I wanted to see whether 2.10 works perfectly. >Tor Lillqvist wrote: > >I would understand if you wanted to do this being an *experienced* >programmer who needs to test building some application against several >versions of the GTK+ stack. But why do you need to do this if you are >a *new* programmer? i wanted the extra feature of gtk+-2.10. >Anyway, the key point here is to build and install the versions you >want of the GTK+ stack (cairo, GLib, atk, Pango, GTK+) into a new, >fresh location. Obviously, you should build in order from bottom up. >When building each component that depends on some of the earlier, make >sure to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH environment >variables so that the earlier components get picked up and not the >system ones installed by the distribution. And whatever you do, >*don't* overwrite files from the system packages. Don't work as root. I did exactly what you said. Thanks for the input. >Sergei Steshenko wrote: >If you are interested, I'll send you the latest version of my AppsFromScratch - >it will build and install gtk+-2.12.7 and all its dependencies using just one >command line, you won't have to be root, you'll decide where to install it. > >You may have unlimited number of different version of the same library using >AppsFromScratch. I already installed 2.10.14. So thanks for your help. --JW _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
