Re: [Sheflug] Updating problem

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ian Wright wrote:

> Thanks, problem solved but not quite by this method. As I had installed the
> most recent versions of glib and gtk+ from tarballs, the rpm program
> wouldn't find them. I sorted it by getting rpms of the last previous release
> from the gnome site and installing these - it let me install Abiword but, of
> course, I still have the tarballs unzipped and littering my system
> somewhere. Is there any utility which would locate these files and let me
> clear them off? (I have the same problem with another program (Lilypond) - I
> can start it by typing its name into the terminal but I don't seem to be
> able to locate the files, don't know what they are called, and it won't let
> me update the installation.

Ah, yeah, mixing tarballs and RPMs will often screw things up. The reason
usually being that the default "prefix" for configure is /usr/local but
RPMs usually configure it as /usr. So chances are the tarball installed
files are under /usr/local.

/usr/local/lib/libglib*
/usr/local/lib/libgtk*
/usr/local/include/glib
/usr/local/include/gtk

And then some docs somewhere probably.

rpm -ql gtk+

will list all the files in the RPM. See if you can find the corresponding
file under /usr/local and kill it.


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