Noob needs help installing glame

[Martynguk2002]

Hi,

I just installed Mandrake 10.0 last week and have been getting to grips with it and have been useing KDE.

I though I would try to install a program form source to see how its done etc. I decided to give glame a try (from glame-1.0.2.tar.gz) I unpacked it and tried the usual ./configure glame came up withthe following error:

configure: error: You need gnome to compile the graphical user interface.
Hint: you also need the appropriate development packages for gnome installed,
usually called gnome-dev, libgnome-dev or similar. You can disable the
graphical user interface by providing the --disable-gui switch to the
configure script.

I wanted the GUI so i went on the internet and found
gnome-libs_1.4.2.orig.tar.gz. When I tried to install this it said that I needed GTK - 1.2.0, so i downloded gtk+-2.4.0.tar.gz after a while I managed to get GTK installed, I think, but when I try to install the Gnome libs it still says it cant find gtk-config and told me to set GTK_CONFIG enviroment to full path to gtk-config. I cannot find gtk-config any where after many internet searches and trying everything i could find still nothing.

So, I am totally stuck now.
I am confused as I have Gnome installed as well as KDE, does that not mean I have the correct libaries to install Glame?
Could some one please point mein the right direction (or better yet show me exactly what to do)

I really want to under stand Linux and be able to free myself from Windoze for good.

Any help is greatly apreciated.

Martyn...

[lakerdonald]

whereis gtk-config

then take the path found by whereis and do

GTK_CONFIG=/path/to/gtk/config
export GTK_CONFIG

then try again

[Martynguk2002]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I tried whereis gtk-config and is just returned
gtk-config:

does that mean I havent installed it correctly?

Its GTK+ 2.4.0 that I have installed but the Gnome libs ask for GTK - 1.2.0 should this still work? does the + and - make any diffrence?

Am I even trying to install the correct thing as far as the Gnome libs go that Glame says it needs?

Martyn...

[Martynguk2002]

Ok I have got the GTK problem sorted out (I was using too new a version of GTK)

Now when I try to ./compile gnome-libs_1.4.2.orig.tar.gz source it says that i dont have ORBit installed, I found that I had an ORBit RPM on my Mandrake 10.0 CD (Sorry I dont know what version) but when I try to install it I'm told that it is already installed??

What am I doing wrong? Pls Help a poor newbie