How to install gDesklets and StarterBar on Fedora Core 4

louise · #1 2005-06-19, 06:22 PM CDT

Make sure your /etc/yum.conf have the [Extras] repository.

Code:

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

Make sure you have these packages installed

Code:

~$ rpm -qa|grep -i py
pyxf86config-0.3.19-4
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.10.0-2.1
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1
python-sqlite-1.1.6-1
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.10.0-1
python-ldap-2.0.6-4
python-2.4.1-2
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4
gnome-python2-canvas-2.10.0-1
dbus-python-0.33-3
python-devel-2.4.1-2
gnome-python2-gconf-2.10.0-1
pyOpenSSL-0.6-1.p24.4
pygtk2-2.6.0-2
PyXML-0.8.4-3
gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.10.0-1
gnome-python2-extras-2.10.0-2.1
rpm-python-4.4.1-21
pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2
gnome-python2-2.10.0-1
pyparted-1.6.9-3
libxml2-python-2.6.19-1
pyorbit-2.0.1-4
pygtk2-devel-2.6.0-2
pyorbit-devel-2.0.1-4

Now you are ready to download gDesklets-0.35.2.tar.bz2

Code:

cd gDesklets-0.35.2
./configure
make
su -c "make install"

Text that it works by going to GnomeMenu->Applications->Accessories->gDesklets.
If it is not there, them start it by

Code:

gdesklets shell

Download starterbar-desklet-0.31.3.tar.gz and http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.14.tar.gz

Code:

tar xzf pyxdg-0.14.tar.gz
cd pyxdg-0.14
su -c "python setup.py install"

Using Nautilus drag the starterbar package into gDesklets that you opened.

Now Starterbar is installed and ready to use.

When upgrading from gDesklets 0.35.1 to gDesklets 0.35.2 I had to delete all the gDesklets settings

Code:

rm -r ~/.gdesklets

before StarterBar worked.

yanik · #2 2005-06-19, 06:52 PM CDT

OK, I still can't get it to work. I have all theses packages already installed.

When I do ./configure, I end up with this:

Code:

checking for pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0... Package ORBit-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ORBit-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'ORBit-2.0', required by 'PyORBit', not found

configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

But,

Code:

[root@nixbox gDesklets-0.35.1]# rpm -qa pygtk2
pygtk2-2.6.0-2
[root@nixbox gDesklets-0.35.1]# rpm -qa pyorbit
pyorbit-2.0.1-4
[root@nixbox gDesklets-0.35.1]# rpm -qa gnome-python2
gnome-python2-2.10.0-1

Do I have to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks

Yan

louise · #3 2005-06-19, 06:55 PM CDT

Are you sure you got ORBit-2.0 ???

Check by
rpm -qa|grep -i orbit

mjman · #4 2005-06-19, 07:12 PM CDT

you need the ORBit-devel package

yanik · #5 2005-06-20, 09:31 PM CDT

Yes I do have them

Code:

[root@nixbox gDesklets-0.35.1]# rpm -qa ORBit*
ORBit2-2.12.1-3
ORBit-devel-0.5.17-15
ORBit-0.5.17-15

yanik · #6 2005-06-20, 09:50 PM CDT

About that message, it says it's looking for ORBit-2.0.pc :

Code:

checking for pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0... Package ORBit-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ORBit-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'ORBit-2.0', required by 'PyORBit', not found

configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

I do have ORBit2 installed, but if I do a

Code:

find / -name ORBit-2.0.pc

, it finds nothing.

I looked in /usr/lib/pkgconfig and ORBit.pc is there tho.

Any hints?

yanik · #7 2005-06-20, 10:07 PM CDT

I got it!

I installed libgnomeui-devel, libgtop2-devel and librsvg2-devel, plus about 20 dependencies (yum, my friend yum!)

CrowBarFu · #8 2005-06-21, 02:20 AM CDT

i was having the same problem as yanik, and i installed the packages you suggested and it worked...thanks!

nandowong · #9 2005-06-24, 12:24 PM CDT

is an rpm in the horizon?

if it is install with tar will it update? or do you have to rebuild it your self?

zeos · #10 2005-06-24, 12:30 PM CDT

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/gdesklets/

edit: missed the fc4 part of the title

Elv13 · #11 2005-06-29, 08:45 PM CDT

Code:

configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

i got this error, where are all package i need? every time i find 1 it need another one

PeterC · #12 2005-06-30, 09:35 AM CDT

Getting it installed is easy (sort of) getting it to actually do some thing is another matter

I've supposedly installed
iWeather
Corners
Gnome-startbar

Sure the gdesklets daemon starts, there’s a pretty icon in my system tray, I can open 'Manage desklets' but is there anything to run in there? Course not.

So off I go, join the gdesklets site/forum to get help, what a sorry state, most of the install help requests are months old with no responses.

Do you think I could find a HOWTO? Nope.

This is my second attempt to get gdesklets working I tried once before under FC2 with similar results however at least when you downloaded displays they showed up in the Display window under FC2. This time round I'm just stuck with the stupid 'uncategorized' folder on the left and nothing on the right.

After following the brilliant advice here and installing 35 packages I'm not a happy bunny

Rant Over:-

mio-fc · #13 2005-07-04, 03:35 PM CDT

I've installed and its working :-) NOOOT.. Well, Clock and Goodweather runs smoothly. But the starterbar comes up with this error:

# Could not find sensor 'StarterBar'
#/home/ml/.gdesklets/Displays/starterbar-desklet-0.31.3/starterbar.display
#
#A sensor could not be found. This usually means that it has not been installed.

It's kind of annoying since I consider the starterbar as on of the really cool thing about gDesklets (and Linux in general). I would really like to get this to work, so does anyone have anybright ideas?

BR Mio

nandowong · #14 2005-07-04, 03:55 PM CDT

searched in google for a fc4 gdesklet rpm and found dries directory for it, but it only had a failed.log

so hopefully it will come along soon

zenora · #15 2005-07-04, 05:23 PM CDT

How about someone compile and make the gdesklet available for x86 available with all appropriate dependencies as rpm so I can yum-extend install. Isn't that precisely why yum-extend installer exists -- for eternal newbies like me :-)
I bet the elapsed time for compile/upload/distribute is not too long... and probably no more than the collective time it took to read/cut-&-paste/post these 6-7 postings on the subject.
I am waiting... for an FC4 rpm... <tick><tock><tick><tock>... sorry folks, I tried to compile ndiswrapper and that was not a success... I'm not trying this one.