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wombatman · 02-13-2005, 07:04 PM

This is based off of SuSE 9.1 Pro. Firstly, I'm trying to install gAIM from the downloaded source. I ran into some problems with gcc not being installed, etc, but I got that fixed. Then I ran into a problem with Glib not being version 2.0.0 or better, so I went out and downloaded the source for that and compiled it successfully. So now to the current problem...

It runs pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 and it finds that the version is 2.2.3, when in fact I have installed 2.6.2. The configure find this and complains that it doesn't know which is correct. Glib installed its stuff into /usr/local/lib. And the configure error suggests I point LD_PKGCONFIG_PATH to that location. As it is, LD_CONFIG_PATH (or LD_PKGCONFIG_PATH, I can't remember which) points to /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig, which I would guess is the problem. So how do I set the variable to the correct path?

Secondly, is there anywhere I can go to find a step-by-step instruction guide for switching from KDE to something else? And also, what would be good to switch to?

02-13-2005, 07:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
wombatman Insane	Some more Linux questions This is based off of SuSE 9.1 Pro. Firstly, I'm trying to install gAIM from the downloaded source. I ran into some problems with gcc not being installed, etc, but I got that fixed. Then I ran into a problem with Glib not being version 2.0.0 or better, so I went out and downloaded the source for that and compiled it successfully. So now to the current problem... It runs pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0 and it finds that the version is 2.2.3, when in fact I have installed 2.6.2. The configure find this and complains that it doesn't know which is correct. Glib installed its stuff into /usr/local/lib. And the configure error suggests I point LD_PKGCONFIG_PATH to that location. As it is, LD_CONFIG_PATH (or LD_PKGCONFIG_PATH, I can't remember which) points to /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig, which I would guess is the problem. So how do I set the variable to the correct path? Secondly, is there anywhere I can go to find a step-by-step instruction guide for switching from KDE to something else? And also, what would be good to switch to?