gtk 2.4.0

[Frank Wiles]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:55:28 -0500
lowell <lowell at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> Folks:
>         I'd like to try Inkscape (oss version if Illustrator) on my 
> RedHat 9 machine, but the rpm bails out with "Need gtk 2"; I wonder
> how  many things will break if I try to install gtk2 ( I also wonder
> how many  things will have to go on before the tool kit will install.
> Does anybody  have experience with this particular upgrade; I'm sure
> many have been  through rpm hell of one sort or another...

  You'll have a much easier time using newer software like this if
  you just upgrade to Fedora Core 3 or 4 instead of trying to patch
  a two year old distro into being more mainstream. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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