On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > glib is set up so that you can install parallel versions. > > Get the src.rpm from a newer distro, change the name to > compat-glib2 and tweak the spec file to build with the changed name > and add > > Provides: glib2 = %{version} > > (and for devel - Provides glib2-devel = %{version} > > Build it and it should install parallel to the stock glib2. > > Of course, you may need to do the same thing with some dependencies > just > to get the compat-glib2 to build. > > I might have a spec file for updated glib2 sitting around somewhere, > but > I stopped using CentOS for desktop so if that is one of the libs I had > updated for myself, it may be older than 2.16 (I seem to remember > doing Thank you for the pointers, I'll look into that approach. Brian