Re: [CentOS] Updating gtk2

On 2013-01-18, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:

At Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:55:15 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

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Do I really need gtk2 running on a server anyway?

Only if:

1. runlevel is 5 (for the GUI login) or you log into the console and then use startx or xinit to fire up the X Server.
2. you run GTK2 programs via SSH X-Server Tunneling -- you don't need it for old-school xterms (eg xterm-215-8.el5_4.1), but you do need it for gnome-terminals (eg gnome-terminal-2.16.0-5.3.el5_6.1).

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I would add:

3) Another package requires it. The cups package, for example, requires gtk2 and other X-related stuff. So if you want to run a headless print server, gtk2 has to be installed.