RE: [Pan-users] Upgrading to Pan v0.12.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.1 issues

[Phillip Pi]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, address@hidden wrote:

> >Hi. I tried to upgrade the core library files as noted on
> >http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/installing-pan-012-howto.txt ... The
> >problem is when I try to upgrade the prerequisities, I even have MORE
> >dependencies problems.
> >[...]
> >glib2 RPM:
> >address@hidden download]# rpm -Uvh glib2-2.0.4-1.i386.rpm
> >error: failed dependencies:
> >        glib-gtkbeta is needed by gtk+-gtkbeta-1.3.2-4
> >        glib-gtkbeta >= 1.3.2 is needed by gtk+-gtkbeta-1.3.2-4
> >        glib-gtkbeta >= 1.3.2 is needed by pango-gtkbeta-0.13-4
> 
> Two issues here:
> 
> 1. You shouldn't upgrade these packages one at a time, unless you're
> willing to work out all the interdependencies.  As stated in the howto,
> you should download them all in a directory, and them upgrade them at
> the same time by doing 'rpm -Uvh *'.

OK.

 
> 2. You seem to already have a beta version of gtk2 and dependencies
> installed, judging by errors regarding gtk+-gtkbeta-13.2-4, etc. You'll
> probably need to remove these first.  If their RPM package names are the
> same as the final ones, you may be able to upgrade them as stated above.

I will try that again.


> >Source (only showing the end):
> >.
> >.
> >.
> >checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0.4
> >                        gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.4
> >                        gthread-2.0 >= 2.0.4... Requested 'glib-2.0 >=
> >2.0.4' but version of GLib is 1.3.2
> 
> This seems to confirm what I said above. You should get 1.3.2 out of the way 
> first, by either removing it, or upgrading it.

I think I will use the RPM method. I hope this does not affect my other 
programs or worse: break my system. I will follow-up if I run into issues.