[plug] GTK-1.2.0 or newer

[laurie anderson]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:45:43 +0800
Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:41:09PM +0800, laurie anderson wrote:
> | 
> |   Good afternoon one & all.
> |   Trying to compile  xsane but get the following error message
> | 
> |    ERROR; GTK-1.2.0 or newer is needed for compiling xsane
> |           if you installed gtk as rpm make sure you also include
> |           gtk-devel
> | 
> | 
> |   did an apt-get update then an upgrade  but still get the above error message????
> |   Did an 'apt-get GTK-1.2.0' but found Debian Sarge  could not find a package.
> 
> If you want to compile something what needs GTK 1.2 you need the
> libgtk1.2-dev package.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
  Cameron,

  Thanks,
  What I fail to understand is this  did a 'find / -name '*libgtk1.2*' got a heap
  of files relating to libgtk1.2  including libgtk1.2-dev so why hasn't the 
  the program compiled successfully.

  Laurie
  PS I am sure it will be something ridiculously simple.