Linux

I've installed glib-2.22.4 from source codes and everything seems just fine with these commands, ./configure, make, make install), but glib-2.22.4 is missing after the installation:

[root@cenos glib-2.22.4]# rpm -qa | grep glib
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-9.el5
glib2-devel-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1
glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3
glibc-devel-2.5-42.el5_4.3
glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1
glibc-headers-2.5-42.el5_4.3
glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3
dbus-glib-0.73-8.el5
avahi-glib-0.6.16-6.el5
dbus-glib-devel-0.73-8.el5

I could not understand where it is. Any idea?

Thank you in advance!

RPM only knows about packages that are registered with it's database, and that contains only packages installed using RPM. So if you compile and install a library from source, it won't register with RPM. You'll have to build a package, and then install that. Best way would be to install the source package for glib2-2.12.3, and use rpmbuild and /usr/src/packages/SPECS/glib2.spec as starting points.

Also, if you absolutely have to install a newer version of a library by hand and want to overwrite the old installation, it's sometimes a good idea to remove the old library first. Otherwise, a repair feature could destroy all your effort.

Thanks a lot for the info!

I installed MySQL from source codes, and 'rpm -qa' can find it. Why?

Is glib2 and glib-2.xxx the same package?

If you installed it from a src RPM, I think that counts...