run GTK app in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Captain Wicker (crazy hillbilly)(Posted 2012) [#1]
Hi,

How can I run GTK executables in the latest flavor of Ubuntu? I think I have all of the GTK libs installed. If not, how?


Thnx


dawlane(Posted 2012) [#2]
That depends on where you got them from, where they are installed and how your going to execute them.If you built them yourself and they are installed in one of the systems search paths then typing in a command terminal ./executable-name or sh executable-name will run it, but if you copied it from a backup drive or downloaded from the Internet; then you will more than likely have to change the file permissions to allow it the execute. And GTK should be installed as default in Ubuntu, unless you are going to build applications from source then you will need the GTK development libraries.

Last edited 2012