GTK+

You only now on 6th of October release an announcement for GTK 2.24.13 that was released on 23rd of September. Could you please be a little quicker on the announcements, 4 weeks and 2 days later is not acceptable.

Hi,

I've spent hours on this and can't seem to search out the right answer. I'd like to install the latest version of WireShark on CentOS 5.4 and I've cleared all the other hurdles (like having devel packages installed) to get GTK+-2.8.20 compiled. It seems the only remaining obstacle is that the WireShark ./configure refuses to believe that GTK+ >= 2.4.0 is installed. The GTK+ compile, make, make install all went smooth with no errors so I believe it is there. Here is the error:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: GTK+ 2.4 or later isn't available, so Wireshark can't be compiled

So...GTK+ 2.8 is installed, I've tried throwing different paths in /etc/ld.so.conf and the configure variables, etc. with no luck.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing? I looked for a 'devel' package for GTK+ but it didn't look like there was one.

Thanks for any help!

Re: ARgh...
>>our problem probably still has to do with the /usr vs /usr/
local/ business. you might want to install gtk (et.al.) with
'configure --prefix=/usr'

i've been trying to install GImageViewer on Suse 10.1 for
more than a day now... this advice was all I needed. Thank
you so much!

Re: Where is gtk-config?

> What wrong? Where is gtk-config?

gtk-config was part of gtk+-1.x. gtk+-2.x uses pkg-
config instead. if your app wants gtk-config, it wants
gtk+-1.x and its devel packages.

Re: Can't get programs to recognize GTK+-1.2.0

> Hi Rob, you seem to know what you're
> doing so I'm hoping you can help me out.
> I've installed gtk+-2.2.4 from source
> and removed my old gtk-config
> beforehand, but now I can't find
> gtk-config anywhere on my system. Have
> I done something wrong? I used all the
> default options when installing
> i.e ./configure
> make
> su
> make install
>
> and gtk was installed in /usr/local
>
> no sign of gtk-config though!
>
> I'm tearing my hair out over this one!
> (I'm trying to get gimp2.0pre2 installed
> without much success!)

the directions above are outdated wrt gtk2.0
which now uses pkg-config (a generalization of gtk-config). you therefore don't need to mess with
the gtk-config stuff.

your problem probably still has to do with the /usr vs /usr/local/ business. you might want to install gtk (et.al.) with 'configure --prefix=/usr' or you might want to mess with your pkg-config path...perhaps 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'

good luck.