SuSE

Ok that installed it, I see a glib-config file in /opt/gnome/bin/ and /home/chris/Desktop/usr/bin. I ran the program I was trying to install and it got past the glib-config check and stopped on GTK_CONFIG AND SDL_CONFIG.

Looks like the same story here - you need the gtk devel packages and sdl devel packages. All of these devel packages should really be on your SUSE 9.2 Pro disks/DVD. Try another search via YaST for "*gtk*" and "*sdl*" and install anything that isn't already present on your system - if ./configure is falling over, chances are they aren't installed or are too old - i bet they aren't installed though (as we found out with glib-devel).

rpm -qva | egrep "sdl|gtk"

The config file it was complaining about was "/opt/gnome/bin/glib-config" originally. Now it probably wants gtk-config and whatever configuration scripts and headers the SDL development packages provide.

Is it possible this program wants the older versions of gtk and sdl. It looks like I have the gtk2-devel pack. I think I read somewhere that it said that like glib and glib2 are 2 totally different things when it comes to things.

linux:/home/chris/Desktop/Xtheater-0.9.2 # rpm -qva | egrep "sdl|gtk"
libexif-gtk-0.3.3-308
gtk2-engines-2.2.0-400
python-gtk-2.2.0-3
gtkglarea-1.2.2-893
gtk-engines-0.12-960
libgtkhtml-2.6.1-3
gtkspell-2.0.5-58
gtk2-doc-2.4.9-10
gtkam-0.1.12-2
wsdl4j-javadoc-1.4-3
gtk2-devel-2.4.9-10
gtkhtml2-devel-3.2.2-3
gtklp-0.9u-2
gtkmm-1.2.10-301
gtk2-2.4.9-10
gtk2-themes-0.1-636
libgtkhtml-devel-2.6.1-3
gtkdoc-1.2-62
gtk-qt-engine-0.5-9
gtk-1.2.10-882
gtkhtml2-3.2.2-3
wsdl4j-1.4-3
gtksourceview-1.0.1-3

You will need the gtk-devel rpm's - they certainly are two different things - certain programs want certain headers and config scripts - this is where compiling from source can become tricky and frustrating. Before you know it you're compiling other things to meet dependencies that themselves have dependencies, etc. If you can find rpms (or debs for debian) then it makes the whole installation routine relatively painless.

You can get SDL here

Check http://rpm.pbone.net/ and see if RPMs are available for gtk-devel and any sdl libraries required.

Also, if you're enquiring about "BestCrypt" i'd suggest starting a new thread as it's unrelated to this discussion.

Cheers
ZB

Ok I have everything except GTK working. I can see its installed by this:
linux:~/Desktop # gtk-config --version
1.2.10
But everytime I do a ./configure on Xtheater it kicks back on gtk it shows

checking for gtk-config... (cached) no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
I've done the command
GTK_CONFIG=/opt/gnome/bin/gtk-config and ran ./configure again and got the same thing... Version 1.2.10 should work shouldn't it?

Try
# export GTK_CONFIG=/opt/gnome/bin/gtk-config

The "export" is important as it will make the GTK_CONFIG variable available to child shells.

Cheers
ZB

Ok, I did that and still the same thing. I even tryed
# ./configure --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome/bin/gtk-config and still it comes up saying it can't find GTK_CONFIG. Know of anything else that might cause it not to find it even after all of this?