I would suggest you look at garnome or jhbuild.  They simplify
building a working set of libraries and tackle the issue you are
referring to (not having root).  I have personally used garnome with
great levels of success.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/jhbuild/

On 1/15/07, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry this is slightly off-topic:
>
> The RH machine on which I do some development work (but don't have
> root access) only has gtk 2.4.13 (it runs KDE). I was able to download
> gtk2-perl and compile a local version against this old version of gtk+
> with no problem. But now, I would like to use some features from gtk
> 2.6. Is it a big deal to compile a local version of gtk 2.6?
>
> Presumably, I will need more recent versions of GLib, Pango, & ATK too?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Jeff
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