Prerequisites ============= GTK+ requires the following packages: - The GLib, Pango, ATK and cairo libraries, available at the same location as GTK+. GTK+ 2.12.1 requires at least GLib 2.12, Pango 1.13, ATK 1.9 and cairo 1.2. - The TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image loading libraries. You most likely have these installed on your system already. If not these libraries are available from: http://www.libtiff.org/ http://www.libpng.org/ http://www.ijg.org/ libtiff must be version 3.6.0 or higher. Simple install procedure ======================== % gzip -cd gtk+-2.12.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources % cd gtk+-2.12.1 # change to the toplevel directory % ./configure # run the `configure' script % make # build GTK+ [ Become root if necessary ] % make install # install GTK+ The Details =========== Complete information about installing GTK+ and related libraries can be found in the file: docs/reference/gtk/html/gtk-building.html Or online at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html