#143 Installation Problem with RedHat 9

[Anonymous]

I am trying to install Scigraphica on a clean RH 9
system.

I can install GTK Extra, apparently without problem but
when I try to install Scigraphica, the configure script
fails with the message:

"...
checking for gtkextra-config... /usr/local/bin/gtkextra-
config
checking for GTK_EXTRA - version >= 0.99.17... no
*** Could not run GTK_EXTRA test program, checking
why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This
usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GTK_EXTRA or
finding the wrong
*** version of GTK_EXTRA. If it is not finding
GTK_EXTRA, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or
edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have
run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to
remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by
modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
***
*** If you have a RedHat 5.0 system, you should
remove the GTK_EXTRA package that
*** came with the system with the command
***
*** rpm --erase --nodeps gtkextra gtkextra-devel
configure: error: Cannot find GTK+EXTRA: Is

gtkextra-config in path?"

(I have come across a similar problem being reported on
a Brazilian Linux site but my Portugese ain't so hot...)

Any ideas how to solve this? No idea where the
configure script is putting the test program by default.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The fix seems to be to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib
although it's odd that it looks by default in /usr/loca/bin for
the GTK Extra conf file.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The fix is to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib although
it's odd that it knows where to find the GTK Extra conf file...

[tjuii]

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I'm using Fedora and the same thing happened to me. You need to find
libgtkextra.a and insert the directory where that resides into your /etc/ld.
so.conf and then run ldconfig.

I had to add /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib inorder to get mine working,
but yours might be in a different location ... you can try there first though
and save you the searching.

After that I wouldn't be surprised if you are still unable to run scigraphica
due to a segmentation fault error whenever you try and run it. I'm
looking into this right now myself, so I can't tell you how to fix that one
yet.

[Rex]

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I am having a similar problem with RH 8.0. It appears that
the -config file comes with the gtk-devel rpm, not the plain
vanilla one, but I am having other dependency problems
installing than one.
Same problem appears for Plib.

Rex