Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
On Thursday 04 August 2011 03:52:49 pm Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > Short answer: Because when you are running ./configure and see a > > message saying "Package xyz was not found in the pkg-config search > > path", it usually means (in Debian) th

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> Eduardo, >> >> Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially >> so quickly? >> >> Randy Kramer >> >> On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M K

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > Eduardo, > > Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so > quickly? > > Randy Kramer > > On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: >> > Yes

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Eduardo, Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so quickly? Randy Kramer On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this: > > > > "Packag

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: Yesterday, my build started failing with messages like this: "Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' fou

Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
To get to the point quicker, skip over the "Background:" down to "My question / problem:" Background: I'm not really a C or C++ programmer, but I've been working on a program (well, an addition to an existing program--a lexer for Scintilla for the Foswiki/ TWiki markup language) and "limping a