Error installing plugin

[John Shane]

Thanks for the pointer, Jasper.  I will work in that direction and hope for success.  John

BTW, I don't so much "want" to compile from source as I just want the functionality of the plugins and simpy hadn't found them as anything but source.  If it turns out to be the only way that I can get them working and I actually manage to succeed they will be the first Linux programs I've installed from source.  I've always thought that would be nice to know how to do but have never had the time to teach myself.  All the configures, prefixes, makes, dpendencies, libraries, etc. etc. are a bit overwhelming when all you want to do is get on with life and be able to see the state of your laptop battery and whether or not there is traffic going through your ethernet connector(s) while you're using the wonderful functionality of xfce4. ;-)

A more careful search has turned up two plugins in rpm format at rpm.pbone.net: diskperf and notes.  However, I haven't found netload and battery as rpm's.  Are they out there and I've just not read carefully enough?  The xfce4 site has many of the main pieces plus some as rh9 rpm's but not all the plugins, at least not that I saw under /archive/xfce4-rc2/rpm/rh9.

Anway, thanks again.

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 15:30:35 +0100
Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:

> You need to install the development packages of all the dependencies of
> xfce if you want to compile from source. 
> 
> This is why I personally don't like the split between regular and -dev
> packages that the big linux distros use, although I can understand it
> may save some disk space.
> 
> The packages are probably called something like glib2-dev, gtk+-dev,
> libxml2-dev and libdbh-dev. And perhaps libstartup-notification-dev.
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> Op za 07-02-2004, om 11:44 schreef John Shane:
> > Okay, I did all the things suggested and ended up with the following error.  So far I've not found an rpm or any other source for gdk-2.0.  Any ideas?.  
> > 
> > It will be a good day for XFCE when we can just point synaptic at a plugin and click on install.  Sigh.  John
> > 
> > <snip>
> > checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> > checking for sysctl... yes
> > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > checking for xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 3.99.2... Package gdk-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-2.0.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > Package 'gdk-2.0', required by 'libxfcegui4', not found
> >  
> > configure: error: Library requirements (xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 3.99.2) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:17:46 -0500 (EST)
> > "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, John Shane wrote:
> > > 
> > > > <snip>
> > > > checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... (cached) yes
> > > > checking for locales directory... ${prefix}/share/locale
> > > > checking for pkg-config... no
> > > > *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is
> > > > *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable
> > > > *** to the full path to pkg-config.
> > > > *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config.
> > > > configure: error: Library requirements (xfce4-panel-1.0 >= 3.99.2) not met;
> > > > consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your 
> > > > libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> > > 
> > > that error is a bit misleading actually.  your problem is not that the 
> > > libraries are in a nonstandard prefix, the problem is that the 
> > > pkg-config script isn't installed, and it can't even begin to find the 
> > > libraries.
> > > 
> > > > I have a RH9 system. I installed Xfce4 using RPMs and am aware that 
> > > > the directories used are slightly different from the source defaults. 
> > > > I set my PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable using "export 
> > > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig"  When I check env PKG_CONFIG_PATH 
> > > > is pointing to the right directory with the xfce4 *.pc files.  I also 
> > > > went to the freedesktop site and downloaded the pkg-config tarball and 
> > > > tried to install it.  "Tried" is the operative word there.  I don't 
> > > > think I got it right though because I still can't get the plugins to 
> > > > work.
> > > 
> > > your directory listings show that the rh9 rpms installed xfce in /usr, 
> > > so you shouldn't need to mess with the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var.  what 
> > > you should do is get an RPM for pkg-config and install that.  i found 
> > > the one that comes with RH9 on rpmfind.net:
> > > ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/pkgconfig-0.14.0-3.i386.rpm
> > > 
> > > that's not the latest version, but that shouldn't matter and should work 
> > > for you.  before you install it, if you have the configured source tree 
> > > still around for the pkg-config you downloaded and tried to install 
> > > yourself, try running 'make uninstall' (as root) in that source 
> > > directory to remove any random files that have the potential to conflict 
> > > with the RPM (but if you can't do this, it should still be ok).
> > > 
> > > if you opt to update to the version of pkg-config that you downloaded 
> > > from freedesktop.org, make sure you install it like:
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > > make
> > > su -c 'make install'  (or sudo make install or whatever)
> > > 
> > > good luck,
> > > brian
> > > 
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