Something about glib

[loocalvinci]

Dear brothers:

I'm a newbie of Linux. I wanna to have a friendly mp3 player in SUSE. So I try to build the source code of XMMS. So I was told to install glib first. Then I get the source code and build it as the "INSTALL" said,such as configure, make ,etc. But after I install it to /usr/local/exec(my configure exec_prefix as it),I can't find the "glib-configure". Someone can tell me the reason and give me some guidance?Thank you.

[gogalthorp]

Yes forget about installing source. Use Yast to install. You will need to add some source URLs

Package Sources/10.2 - openSUSE-Community

once you know how to set up sources add some of these

Package Sources/10.2 - openSUSE-Community

Packman should have all you need for multi media

here is one more to guide you to exactly what you need

Hacking openSUSE 10.2 - Software in Review

[loocalvinci]

Dear gogalthorp:

Thank you for your kindly help and your guidance is very valuable and helphelpful for me.But now I have some problem with YaST that after I built glib the YaST doesn't work.In the user mode,after I clicked the YaST, I was prompted to input the root password. But after I did it, nothing happened.I can't run the YaST anymore.Then I tried to execute "yast" in terminal and get the YaST in terminal.But this one is unstable and always hang there.
By the way I still want to build the source code. I'm a student.I'm very interested in Open source. I want to know more about the linux, about gnu, about very thing open to me. But still, from bottom of my heart,thank you.

[gogalthorp]

Get smart it may help to get you out of you problems with Yast.
You can use it maybe to revert back to a copy of glib that is compatible with your current version of Yast.

SMART Package Manager - SUSE Wiki

You have now learned that more then one program may depend on a given library and changing the version of that library can cause other programs to break. This is why there are installation managers to sniff out all those dependencies.

[loocalvinci]

Yep, copy that.The architecture of SUSE is far more complicated than I imagine it.Thank you for your help.