>I'm a satisfied user of RH 5.0 and XWindows. Latetly i've seen that
>there is newer versions of the gimp program and the gtk+ library.
>Whenever I try to upgrade/install these I get problems in either
>running gimp or programs who wan't install because "they can't find
>the gtk+(--) libraries"i, or similar.
>
>When I use rpm -Uvh --nodeps (alternative --nodeps --force) it wan't
>work. The errors I get is like "can't find blabla.so.1" or something
>similar. So what should I do?
>
>The upgrade/install goes for these packages:
>
>gimp-0.99.15-2.i386.rpm
>gimp-devel-0.99.15-2.i386.rpm
>gtk+-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
>gtk+-devel-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
>
These packages (as well as various gnome packages) are being
developed at a furious pace. New packages come out almost
daily. Check out w3.rufus.org/linux/RPM to track them. What
this means is that you have to get gtk+, glib, and gimp that
are all built at the same time and are, hopefully, stable,
rather than development builds. Your gimp package was
built last October and your gtk+ package was built in May.
Between those dates, some of the gtk+ functionality was split
off into a new glib package.
I've successfully installed together
gtk+-1.0.1-2
glib-1.0.1-2
gimp-0.99.26-1
together with associated devel and lib packages. You could look for
those. I also suggest you *uninstall* older versions
(ignoring the dependency messages) before installing the
new ones. I know that upgrading is supposed to work
without doing this but the developers have been moving too fast
to spend the time to get the upgrading scripts right with respect
to *all* previous versions.
Also, get packages from the best sources: Redhat Labs and
Trond Glomsrod are the names to look for. The data base
at rufus is invaluable bacause all relevant pieces of information
such as dependencies, build date, and packager are available
before you download anything.
Bob T.