Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[Gerald Barre]

Le Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:57:05 -0400
Marv Boyes <marvboyes at att.net> s'exprimait:

> Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > Having lived in the Mandrake world for the past two years, I know
> > the feeling; I've had to manually upgrade my automake, autoconf,
> > make, aclocal and the likes in order to compile progs properly; now
> > that I'm on 10.0 OE it's a bit easier; but overall, what I do is I
> > unpack and compile things under the /usr/src directory and then
> > always use the settings:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > 
> 
> So I'm guessing, based on what you've said here and what I've read on 
> the Goodies page, that I'll want the xfce4-taskbar-plugin directory in
> /usr/src, and my command ought to look like this:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
> 
> No?

By default the plugins are installed in /usr/lib/xfce4 and you shouldn't
have to use the prefix option. Do it step by step so you can see if
there are error messages.
1- ./configure
2- make
3- su -c 'make install'


> Next question: assuming this utterly fails to work (I hate to be such
> a fatalist; but like I said, compiling & installing from source just 
> doesn't work for me...), is there any easy way to clean up the mess
> left behind?
> 

As root in the unpacked directory make uninstall