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GTK+-2.2.4

Introduction to GTK+

The GTK+ package contains GTK+ Libraries. This is useful for creating graphical user interfaces for applications.

Package information

GTK+ dependencies

Required

GLib-2.2.3, XFree86-4.3.0.1, Pango-1.2.5, ATK-1.2.4, libpng-1.2.5, libtiff-3.5.7 and libjpeg-6b

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.0, DocBook XML DTD-4.2 and DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.62.4

Installation of GTK+

Install GTK+ by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This switch installs the configuration files into /etc instead of /usr/etc.

--enable-gtk-doc: This switch will rebuild the API documentation during the make command.

Contents

The GTK+ package contains libgtk-x11-2.0 libraries.

Description

GTK+ Libraries

GTK+ Libraries provide the API to implement graphical user interfaces.

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