[ale] xmms install for newbie

[joshb at speakeasy.org]

Here's my guess.  You installed your glib under /usr/local and your
linker does not know to look there.  First, determine if you have
an old glib on you system.  For rpm based systems, run something
similar to 'rpm -qa | grep -i ^glib'.  If you see something listed
and it is older than what you want to install, then just grab a
newer RPM to upgrade your system.  If it is not installed, then
make sure you have /usr/local/lib listed in your /etc/ld.so.conf
file on a line by itself.  You'll need to add that as root.  Also
as root, run ldconfig.

I would really suggest that as someone starting, you try to find
RPMs (or debs for Debian systems) for this software, both the library 
and the xmms program.  It will probably make your life a little easier 
for now.

Josh


On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:26:07PM -0700, eric innis wrote:
> hey guys, Im new to the linux scene and I am still
> used to point-click programs doing everything for me! 
> anyhow I've gotten pretty far.  Downloaded xmms,
> unzipped it, did the ./configure and BAM! the thing
> says it cant find GLIB>= 1.2.2.  So I go to their
> website and grab GLIB 1.2.8 (figurin' it is better)
> and I manage to install it with no errors.  Then I ran
> ./configure in the xmms direcrory agian and still the
> same error. so I thought that it wants the 1.2.2 so I
> grabbed and installed 1.2.2 (without removing 1.2.8
> b/c I dont know how to remove it) and guess what...
> same error.   Any help will be repaid with a free
> brand new computer of your choosing ...after I win the
> lottery. :-)
> 
> the complete error is:
> 
> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2...no
> could not run glib test program, checking why...
> the test program compiled, but did not run
> BLAH.. the run time linker is not finding GLIB or the
> wrong version BLAH.. if it is not finding Glib set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or edit
> /etc/ld.so.conf to pint to the installed location also
> make sure you have run ldconfig if that is required on
> your sys. if you have red hat and GTK package remove
> the sucker.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I also tried the ldconfig command but still same
> error.  Typing that whole thing sucked, cant you cut
> and paste in kde?
> 
> thanks a million
> 
> -ERIC
> 
> 
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