[pygtk] Install problem: pygobject-2.0 ??

[Gian Mario Tagliaretti]

2006/12/29, Marilyn Davis <marilyn a deliberate.com>:

> I'm trying to install pygtk-2.10.3 on my Fedora Core Release 5.

can you not install the package for your distro?

> > Requested 'pygobject-2.0 >= 2.12.1' but version of PyGObject is 2.8.4
>
> So I installed ppygobject-2.12.3 but I get the same error.
>
> I see that I have 2 pygobject-2.0.pc files:

that's correct if you don't override system libraries

> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/pygobject-2.0.pc  which says:
> Version: 2.8.4
>
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/pygobject-2.0.pc  which says:
> Version: 2.12.3
>
> I don't think there is anything non-standard on the machine.  I always accept defaults.

I think that if you don't know the difference between system path and
/usr/local you shouldn't attempt to install a different library
version.

> So I'm trying this:

Everything you attempt will simply break your system, if you install
in /usr/local, which is the default path of configure you will regret
it later....

believe me if you don't do that _only_ for testing an app that require
a newer library, try to find or build a package for your distro first.

cheers
-- 
Gian Mario Tagliaretti
http://www.parafernalia.org/pygtk/