[pygtk] Install problem: pygobject-2.0 ??

[Marilyn Davis]

I'm sorry the doorman message made you grouchy you Gian.  You got it for the private email, not for the list email.

Thanks for the suggestion.

It all seems to work now.

Thanks again.

Marilyn

----- On Friday, December 29, 2006 g.tagliaretti at gmail.com wrote:

> 2006/12/29, Marilyn Davis :
> 
>> 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/