Niki Kovacs wrote: > nate a écrit : >> Try it out and see what happens.. since the version change seems >> pretty minor I wouldn't expect too much breakage .. Though to be >> on the safe side it's probably good to install it to another >> directory(/usr/local or something) and change the package name so >> it doesn't conflict. >> >> When building your new programs just be sure that you point them >> to the other version of GTK via LD_LIBRARY_PATH CPPFLAGS etc.. >> > > I did quite a lot of researching and fiddling, and in the end, after > weighing the pros and the cons... I guess I'll wait for CentOS 6 to > build these new apps. If I recall - gtk is one of the nicer apps in that it properly uses pkgconfig allowing multiple versions to be installed side by side. What you could probably do is take a more recent src.rpm from a more recent Fedora and change the package name to compat-gtk2 and it probably will nicely install side (including devel packages) with stock gtk2+ Note that if what you want are newer GNOME apps - GNOME libraries version often so you may find yourself needing to build several newer libraries to get a modern GNOME application to build. I've not tried building a newer gtk2+ on CentOS but until I switched to CentOS, I frequently built older versions of gtk2+ to install side by side with stock Fedora because Fedora was so bleeding edge that some small developer base special projects I used were always 1 or 2 versions behind.