installing gtk and glib

Question

hi every one kindly tell me how to install glib and gtk i am using ubuntu 10.04. i did;nt find any commands kindly tell me the procedure to install it

Guide

Answer 1

Simply type:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

glib is a dependency so it will be installed too. Also you might be interested in installing glade as i remember it installs a gtk reference too:

sudo apt-get install glade

Terrel

thank u osman sir. i have types the command but its saying 7 hr remaining .is it fine i mean such large time thanks – Guide

That's a very long time. If you have a slow internet connection then this might be the problem. If you have a fast connection you might try downloading the packages and their dependencies from packages.ubuntu.com and install them manually. – Terrel

Answer 2

And once you install them with apt-get, you can easily look up how are they called in your library list using the following command:

pkg-config --list-all | grep query

You replace "query" with "glib" for example, in the result you can find:

glib-2.0 GLib - C Utility Library

So when you compile your code and you want to link your library with pkg-config, you can use this command:

gcc -o example example.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0`

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