[Fwd: [NCLUG] problems with "gtk"]

[J. Paul Reed]

On 26 Nov 2000 at 17:07:49, virgil denny modified my mailspool to say:

> Thanks Paul. I tried installing gtk from my redhat 7.0 discs, but redhat
> kept taking over, so i reinstalled redhat, and then took what i needed from
> suse. (does this make it red susy? or maybe susy's hat?) it seems to be
> working ok this way, thanks again.

If you can, you should try and not mix distro .rpms (or .debs for that
matter), for two reasons:

a) If you ever try to get "official" support from RHAT, and they find out
you mixed distro packages, they won't talk to you.

b) This can cause weird dependency issues/errors in the future.

I experienced both when I installed rpms from the egcs project to fix
broken C++ support in RH 5.2, and I argued with RH on how they packaged
egcs, but ultimately, they just said "you shouldn't have done that." It
took me weeks to figure out why simple C++ programs were failing to compile
(it had to do with header files from 5.2's RPM silently conflicting with
headers from egcs' RPMs).

It sounds like when you tried to install the gtk RPMs, you were booting off
the CDROM; all you need to do is, as root, mount the RH CD, then cd into
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, IIRC (and only if /mnt/cdrom is your CDROM mount
point), and find the gtk-devel rpm and do an rpm -i on that specific file.

HTH.

Later,
Paul
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