Re: gtk upgrade woes!

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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Jeroen Asselman wrote:

>  If you have got an RPM based system, it isn't advisable to compile your own
> stuff. (Except afterstep as it is quite impossible to patch an RPM file :-) ) ..
> When you are going to compile your own GTK and GLIB it will work fine. However,
> as soon as you are going to install a GTK based program with RPM it will not be
> able to find the GTK libraries as they weren't installed by RPM.
> 
As I have found, I have never had problems so long as I don't try to do
RPM installs in the future.  I am slowly switching my system from an RPM
based system to a self-compiled system.  Needless to say, it is slow
going.  Maybe I should've started with a compiled system from the start.
=P


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