gDesklets gnome.ui error

[zzp]

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to install gDesklets on my Slackware 10 distro.

I'm running enlightenment-0.16.7.2 (got it from the linuxpackages.net site) and I wanted to put those nice displays working.

Basically my problem occurs when I try to start the gdesklets daemon:

# gdesklets start
connecting to daemon [### ]Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon", line 13, in ?
import gnome.ui
ImportError: No module named gnome.ui
Cannot establish connection to daemon : timeout

I went to get the necessary packages to run gDesklets from linuxpackages.net and installed them in the following order:

pygtk-2.4.1
pyorbit-2.0.1
gnome-python-2.6.2
swig-1.3.21
gDesklets-0.30

After a google search on the topic I also installed required gnome packages:

libgnome-2.6.1.1
libgtop-2.6.0
libbonobo-2.6.2
libbonoboui-2.6.1
orbit2-2.10.2
gconf-2.6.2
gnome-vfs-2.6.1.1
librsvg-2.6.5

and also: (extra-gnome)

python-2.3.4
libxml2-2.6.9

I've also tried to install from source but I get stuck with pyorbit compilation.

I've read some related posts on the matter but none seemed to help me.

I'm far from being a Linux expert, so can someone give me a hint to solve these problem? Is there some basic step that I'm missing? Thanks!

[jeremy1701]

There is a package called libgnomeui and libgnomeui-devel. You should install those.

Jeremy

[zzp]

Thanks for your reply Jeremy.

I installed libgnomeui from my Slack CD.

I'm still trying to install libgnomeui-devel since it doesn't come with the distro. Actually I'm having a bit of a hard time to find the source.

With libgnomeui only, the problem persists though. Does this smell good to you...?

I'll let you know the outcome when I have libgnomeui-devel installed.

Any more hints? Thanks

[smindinvern]

I'm not sure, but you may have to be running gnome to run gdesklets

[Chris H]

I have them running on slack with fluxbox.

I also have gnome installed though.

[zzp]

I'm really having a hard time trying to install gdesklets!

First of all I couldn't manage to install libgnomeui-devel as jeremy1701 suggested. Only libgnomeui. Still the problem continued.

So according to Smindinver and Chris H posts, I went for a full installation of the gnome desktop. Installed from my Slack distro all there is from gnome. (libs and so on...)

But the problem persisted though. Even when I run gnome desktop. It gives exactly the same error as it did with enlightenment.

# gdesklets start
connecting to daemon [### ]Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon", line 13, in ?
import gnome.ui
ImportError: No module named gnome.ui
Cannot establish connection to daemon : timeout Confused

I did a google search on the error above but solutions mentioned didn't help me

I've also tryed to install the packages mentioned in my first post from source but I run into a lot of errors (specially with pyorbit and gnome-python)

I'm not running a full installation of my Slackware distro. This means I add libraries and other stuff as needed. I want to keep it minimal as possible. And I don't have a clue if something else is missing... The error messages don't help much.

At the moment I don't know what else to do. Any more help/tips would be great!

Thanks!