On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 00:42:00 -0400 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:43:46AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> >
> >>>>How do I go about keeping my current gtk stuff around, and install
> >>>>the gtk2.0 as well?
> >>>
> >>>If you compiled it yourself, you should keep your self-compiled
> >>>version in /opt...
> >>
> >>Unfortunately, all by way of apt-get
> >
> >
> > So why would you want to keep the old version around? apt is pretty
> > good about not hosing your system.
> >
>
> Not to mention that libgtk1.2 and libgtk2.0-0 don't conflict with each
> other. I have both libgtk1.2 and libgtk2.0-0 programs happily
> installed without any problems. Maybe OP can elaborate on what
> problems he is having? If you just want to install libgtk2.0-0, all
> you have to do is 'apt-get install libgtk2.0-0'. I was hesitant to
> suggest this because I couldn't imagine why the OP wouldn't have
> already tried this.
>
Some stuff requires gtk1.2, and a few newer programs require gtk2.0. I
wanted to make sure that I didn't hose my system totally.
I knew about 'apt-get install libgtk2.0-0', but didn't want to lose the
ability to use 1.2.
Thanks to both you and Paul.
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