Re: gtk+ upgrading

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart kcinter net>]

On 30-Apr-99 Hal Burgiss opined:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 04:08:09AM -0500, Uncle Meat wrote:
>> 
>> 2 ways to handle this. Take your pick:
>> 
>> 1. rpm -ivh (not -Uvh) will let you install multiple instances of
>> gtk+
>> and glib. I've had as many as 4 different versions installed at
>> once.
> 
> 
> I've done it this way. One problem I'm having is that installing new
> packages
> sometimes finds only the oldest gtk+ (I had 2 versions installed),
> even
> though I have the required version installed. This was giving me
> fits. The
> only solution was to uninstall the oldest version, which did not
> remove
> gtk-config, and I was stilling getting dependency errors for the
> older
> version  even though it wasn't even there. Had to manually delete
> gtk-config. Uninstalling the older version is breaking stuff right
> and
> left as apparently these aren't able to co-exist with the newer
> version.
> ldconfig doesn't seem to help any either.

Many of the source packages have a configure script. And quite a number
of those have a --disable-gtktest option to keep them from crashing
during configure.

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I distinctly remember forgetting that.