Kerberos - 2008-11-11

Hello,

I am VERY new to Gnuplot. At the moment I am planning how to install it on a Solaris 10 (SPARC) server.

I was pleased to see that the gtk package was already installed:

bash-3.00# pkginfo | grep -i gtk
application CSWglib2                         glib2 - Low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+
application CSWgtk2                          gtk2 - GTK+, The GIMP Toolkit
application CSWgtkspell                      gtkspell - Spell checking enhancement for the GtkTextView widget
system      SUNWGtkr                         GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Root)
system      SUNWGtku                         GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Usr)

The version is 2.4 :

bash-3.00# cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc | grep version
gtk_binary_version=2.4.0

This means less work, as the relevant Cairo, Glib, Pango, Atk  libraries are also installed.

However, the Gnuplot installation instructions refer to "..the gtk+ package ..".    Is this the same as the gtk2 package referred to in the output of the 'pkginfo' command ?

If by any chance, this means a separate package needs to be installed, the Sun Freeware site offers two such gtk+ packages:

(1)  " gtk+-1.2.10-sol10-sparc-local.gz GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces - installs in /usr/local. You must also install the glib-1.2.10 package. "

(2)  " gtk+-2.12.0-sol10-sparc-local.gz GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces"

Would it be better to use the more recent 2.12.0 version? Do I need either of these or should I just stick with the version 2.4 that is already installed.

Many thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,

"Kerberos"