From: Jim L. <jc...@st...> - 2002-10-11 14:26:03
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In article <1034060159.4176.8.camel@Eccles>, Alastair Porter <ala...@ge...> wrote: > I Can't find pygtk2 1.99.13 anywhere, rh 8.0 comes with 1.99.12 and > thats all thats on the rox website I am also continuing to have irritating problems due to the requirement for pygtk 1.99.13 for some apps, etc. :-/ My progress on this is slow as I have to spend most of my time on other 'day job' activities. Then, when using linux, I am mostly doing thinks like learning how to produce 'C'/GTK programs for specific purposes. (Also, with trying to find out why I can't make a USB mouse work as it should!) Earlier today I finally found a chance to try installing pygtk 1.99.13 from a source tar I'd found. I was intending to use 'checkinstall' for this, and have added checkinstall to my system. I managed to uncompress the tar OK. However when I then do ./config it halts with "checking for python>=2.2... configure: error: too old" I suspect this means the config routine is checking and can't see that I do have python 2.2.x. Well, I *do* have python 2.2. It is just that - as a standard Red Hat 7.3 version it is called "python2" not "python" so I assume that ./config is looking for it with the incorrect name. Is my suspicion above correct? If so, can I just edit the config file to look for "python2", or will this lead to other problems? If I just try a "make" it refuses with "No targets specified and no makefile found" I assume this means no makefile for my system has been setup by config as it halted Is this also correct? I have searched a number of times for an rpm of pygtk 1.99.13, but can not find one. Could only find a source tar that looked OK for Red Hat. However, from what I see above, it looks like it would also have to be fairly specific to Red Hat 7.3 to work. (?) This is irritating as I'd like to be able to use many of the apps which have been made for ROX, but some I have tried fail due to the lack of pygtk and the distinction on Red Hat between python and python2. I have modified ROX_Lib2 to look for versions named with a '2', but without pygtk 1.99.13 some command calls still fail as they seem to have been changed in detail. I am now wondering that if I *do* manage to install pygtk 1.99.13 it will then leave me with 'pygtk' being 1.99.13 and 'pygtk2' being the older version currently installed! If so, this would be somewhat confusing, and might 'break' something. I am assuming that Red Hat have a specific reason for keeping the '2' versions for new versions... Slainte, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/Audio/armstrong.html Barbirolli Soc. http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/JBSoc/JBSoc.html TechWriter http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/TechWrite/Tips1.html Compo http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/Compo/clues.html |