How to solve old GLIB error

Question

I am in the process of installing GTK+ but it needs various pre-requisites. These are

• glib - 2.0 >= 2.35.3
• atk - >= 2.7.5
• Pango- >= 1.32.4
• gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.27.1

Now I upgraded my glib-2.0 to 2.38.2, and I've tried upgrading atk, pango and gdk-pixbuf

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.31.2... 
'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.38.2, but GLIB (2.32.4)
was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
/etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
required on your system.
If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
to point to the correct configuration files

configure: error: 
GLIB 2.31.2 or better is required. The latest version of
GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is installed
but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the file
glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

I have been go round in circles for the past few hours trying to get this working, if anyone out there can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

Solution

I have the same problem as you.

I set PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH as

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11228173/how-to-find-where-older-version-of-glib-has-been-installed

But it didn't work. Then I found someone solve it as

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-set-ld_library_path-pkg_config_path-and-glib_config-937732/

And it did work!

Comments

[chaskes]

How did you upgrade glib?

[Hakim_Djzarie]

Downloaded it from ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib and just did the ./configure && make && make install

[chaskes]

The package manager doesn't know you installed the newer glib and only sees the older version. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[Hakim_Djzarie]

12.04 is my version of Ubuntu chaskes