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How can I develop a GTK+ application in Lucid?

Asked by Gergely Máté

I would like to develop a GTK+ application in Ubuntu 10.04. When I try to install the libgtk2.0-dev package, Synaptic complains about broken dependencies.
A broken dependency is libgtk2.0, which is described as "too new".
Other missing dependencies are libglib2.0-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libatk1.0-dev and libcairo2-dev. Synaptic states that those packages are required but not set to be installed.

How do I set up an environment with I am able to build a GTK+ application?

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Hans Spaans (hspaans) said : 		#1

Running the following command should install all the required packages:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-devel

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#2

This sound good, but again missing dependencies are reported: libgdl-1-dev.
And libgdl-1-dev is again dependent on libgtk2.0-dev.

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Hans Spaans (hspaans) said : 		#3

Can you post the output of the following:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-devel

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#4

gerymate@sportember:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-develHit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security Release.gpg
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid Release
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates Release
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security Release
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.sth.sze.hu lucid-security/universe Sources
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-devel: Depends: libgdl-1-dev (>= 2.28) but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: gnome-core-devel but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
gerymate@sportember:~$

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#5

I removed all the repositories except for *main* and *universe*, changed the server, and tried again. It worked.
Thank you for all your help, and especially for the hint on the "gnome-devel" package!