Prerequisites ============= GTK+ requires the following packages: - The GLib, Pango, GdkPixbuf, ATK and cairo libraries, available at the same location as GTK+. GTK+ 2.24.33 requires at least GLib 2.28.0, Pango 1.20, GdkPixbuf 2.21.0, ATK 1.29.2 and cairo 1.6.0. - gobject-introspection 0.9.3 or newer. Simple install procedure ======================== % gzip -cd gtk+-2.24.33.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources % cd gtk+-2.24.33 # 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