thanks all. i ahd found the libgtk file in synaptic but it did not occur to me that was what i need. too bad i did not know earlier. now its its like i got a bee in my bonnet . i simply must compile it if only for the sake of the challenge. thank you for telling me. <div>On 7/5/05, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.07.2005, 14:26 +0500 schrieb Mustafa Abbasi: > no i got no responce using which gtk-config or from which gtk_config. > i compiled gtk cuz nvu gave this error. > i installed it in /opt/gtk. > also i had no idea ubutu offered the nvu package. i had tried using > synaptic. > but thing is i was able to compile nvu fine last time (before ubutu.. > i think it was in fedora). > i really want to know why its not working. > > could anyone guide me to this step. > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in > *** your path, > > it would be appreciated.how do i make prefix/bin in my path. > i am assuming prefix/bin means /opt/gtk/bin in my case. you should just install the gnome-core-devel package, it installs all the development files of the already installed librarys... the nvu package in the archive is very recent, why compile if you can just apt-get install it ? ciao oli BodyID:7242104.2.n.logpart (stored separately) -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>