Is there a glib version I should download and install? There are many
on the the Gtk+ site. I don't know what one is compatible with Gtk3.
Do I need git to download the latest Glib?
Craig Bakalian
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 20:47 +0100, Jaroslav Šmíd wrote:
> > I am running ubuntu 10.10 and Gnome 2.32.0. I am a bit afraid to update
> > via a install from a tar download because of all the dependence issues
> > on ubuntu. Is there a way to update via command line or synaptic?
>
> Install gtk2-dev (or something like that). It will install most of
> required depencies to build new glib and gtk3.
>
> After that, download glib, and install like this:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk3-stuff
> make
> make install
>
> Then create script /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh with content:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/bin:${PATH}"
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk3-stuff/lib/pkgconfig"
>
> Make it executable and "source" it
> chmod +x /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh
> source /opt/gtk3-stuff/bin/gtk3-set-env.sh
>
> You will need to "source" the file everytime you would like to build
> gtk3 app or app using newest glib (which seems to be required by gtk3).
>
> Now build gtk3:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk3-stuff
> make
> make install
>
> Nothing to be afraid of as long as you install to /opt/gtk3-stuff and
> not to /usr.
>
> Feel free to ask if you get configure/compilation error - maybe few
> build depencies will be required, which won't get installed as depencies
> for gtk2-dev.
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