>> Any comments on my original query? >> I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been >> hijacked by another >> subject... or two. >> >> Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. >> >> On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: >> > I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it >> > needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default >> install provides. >> > This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and >> > install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two >> copies of glib >> > installed and refuses to continue. >> > >> > If I try to uninstall GTK+ v2 dpmdrake tells me >> (understandably) that it >> > will have to uninstall a huge number of applications. >> > >> > I am sure there is a simple way to do this, but in this case >> learning by >> > trial and error is likely to involve trashing a lot of functionality. >> > >> > So - How do I upgrade a shared library under the noses of >> dozens of apps >> > that are dependent on it? And what is this likely to do to rpmdrake's >> > database?
Thoughts: why would you need to recompile anything enless its not in RPM form. If you redo your glib and glibc your kinda fucked. Everything on your system requires the version that you have installed b/c they are compiled against that version. 2 versions of glib installed is b/c one is in source form and one is in rpm form. You kinda screwed yourself. If you uninstall any window widget you will be uninstalling 90% of your GUI. You update a shared library by updating it via rpm's. It will test first if it can be updated and tell you any issues. Use the rpm -Uvh --test rpm-filename.rpm" first. Rob
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