what version of GLIB do I have

[bigskinnee]

I am trying to install balsa 1.1.0 and the configure script says that I dont have GLIB 1.2.0 how do I find out what version I have and where it is installed?

I am running Debian 2.2r2 with lots of upgrades.

Thanks

[jbstew32]

you mean glibc? Well, I am willing to bet you either have 2.1 or 2.2 (the newest version)

[rod]

Run the following command (in your favorite terminal) to find glibc.

locate glibc

Did you download the .deb or tar file. There is a .deb for Balsa 1.1.0, check the link below.
http://www.tvec.net/users/wabbit/


Since you are running Debian I suggest that you get the .deb file and install it.


dpkg -i <your new balsa deb file>

Regards,
Rod

[bigskinnee]

checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: You need GLib installed -- GNOME requires this as well.


That is the message I am getting.
I am running helix gnome and I have the gimp 1.2.1 installed so I should have the correct glib installed. I just need to know where?

[bigskinnee]

checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: GTK not installed

I am also getting this error.

Thanks for the help rod but that deb file wouldnt install because of some dependencie problems

[rod]

I downloaded the Balsa-1.1.0.deb myself and tried to install it. I also ran into some dependency problems. Different than those you were having. I think I'll stick with version 0.9.5pre1 that is in the unstable tree.

Regards,
Rod

[PLBlaze]

Balsa requires glib and gtk libs.You did not specify which desktop you are running but if you have no gnome that's why the configure script fails.See if you can locate glib-config and gtk-config,they are usually found under /usr/bin directory.
If you have them installed somehow your PATH is not set to /usr/bin...when running configure you might want to supply --help flag to see all the options.Try ./configure --with-glib=/usr/bin --with-gtk=/usr/bin and see what happens.

Glib and glibc are two different things (libs) that should be no mistaken.On most distros glibc-2.1.3 aka libc6 is the default system library....Hope this helps.

[bigskinnee]

OK I dont have either of those -config files on my machine anywhere. And that is what most software checks for during the ./configure part. So right now I cant compile anything not just balsa.

Again I am now running Debian (sid) with the helix gnome desktop.

please help :(

[Strike]

Get and install libglib1.2 and libglib1.2-dev from www.debian.org (http://www.debian.org) and you should be set.

[bigskinnee]

well i installed those (actually I only had to install the dev one because libglib1.2 was already installed) and the glib-config and ftk-config are still not to be found on my system.
How is this possible?

Does anyone know how I can go about makeing these file or regenerating them.

Thanks

[Strike]

Well, according to the version of libglib1.2-dev:

[ddipaolo@half-life ddipaolo]$ dpkg -l | grep libglib1.2-dev
ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.8-2 Development files for GLib library

version 1.2.8-2 puts glib-config in /usr/bin:

[ddipaolo@half-life ddipaolo]$ dpkg -S glib-config
libglib1.2-dev: /usr/share/man/man1/glib-config.1.gz
libglib1.2-dev: /usr/bin/glib-config


and /usr/bin should be in your path:

[ddipaolo@half-life ddipaolo]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/share/j2sdk1.3.0/bin:/home/ddipaolo/bin

So, check your PATH for /usr/bin, since installing the package libglib1.2-dev should put glib-config in /usr/bin

[bigskinnee]

Thanks so much that did help. I now have the glib-config file in my /usr/bin and /usr/bin is in my PATH however I am having the exact same problem with the gtk config. It cannot be found in the /usr/bin when I apt-get install libgtk-dev it removes the libglib1.2-dev. So can I not have these both installed at the same time...?

[bigskinnee]

strike are you out there.....

[MBMarduk]

Well, I'll bump this one 'cuz I got the SAME MTHRFCKNG problem. First no GLIB...installed it. Then no GTK+...installed it.
(Actually, BOTH were pre-installed but seems SuSE's RPM messed up something so ./configure won't detect them... :()
Now the prog I'm trying to compile (XMMS)complains it can't find X...while I'm IN X!

-Mike

[MBMarduk]

BTW, is the install-path in /etc/ls.so.conf? And have you run ldconfig?