gDesklets and openSuSE 10.2

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Having trouble installing gDesklets for openSuSE 10.2. I get this error:

checking for GDESKLETS... configure: error: Package requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0) were not met.
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

The funny thing is I already have pygtk installed. Any help is much appreciated. This would finish my desktop off nicely. I already have Beryl 1.3 and kiba-dock running!!

Cheers guys

[daark.child]

You need to install the development (devel) packages of pygtk, pyorbit etc. The packages should be on your discs or the Suse software repositories so you can use YAST or SMART to install them.

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Cheers daark.child for the help,

Tried installing the devel packages with smart but they are already installed.

Could be something to do with gDesklets not being supported by 10.2 because it doesn't seem to be available through the guru and packman repos but was there with 10.1.

Food for thought

[St. Joe]

If it was available for 10.1 then just download the SRPM for that package from the applicable repo and try the rpmbuild command to install it on your system. There may be something in the packager's spec file that will account for the instances you have mentioned. For specifics on how to use rpmbuild view the man file.

$ man rpmbuild

[daark.child]

Run the following commands and post back the ouput. The first is

$rpm -qa | grep -i gnome-python

The second is

$rpm -qa | grep -i pygtk

and the third is

$rpm -qa | grep -i pyorbit

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Thanks St. Joe

Looks like I'll have to teach myself how to use the rpmbuild command. This is a bit of a learning curve but I'll give it a crack tomorrow. Its a bit late at the moment. If you have any websites that will help out would be grateful.

Regards

Didn't see the next post. Will give it a crack now.

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daark.child i get

SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i gnome-python
gnome-python-desktop-2.16.0-34
SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i pygtk
SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i pyorbit
SuSEDesktop:~ #

Just so I understand, this displays what version you have of each of these packages??

If so this is fairly weird because I have (well I'm pretty confident I have!!) installed the other two through SMART.

Thanks for your help it's much appreciated. I'm still a bit new at this.

[St. Joe]

If you have any websites that will help out would be grateful.

You don't need all that...the commands are right in the man file.
For example:

# rpmbuild --rebuild package_name-verison.src.rpm

[daark.child]

daark.child i get

SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i gnome-python
gnome-python-desktop-2.16.0-34
SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i pygtk
SuSEDesktop:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i pyorbit
SuSEDesktop:~ #

Just so I understand, this displays what version you have of each of these packages??

If so this is fairly weird because I have (well I'm pretty confident I have!!) installed the other two through SMART.

Thanks for your help it's much appreciated. I'm still a bit new at this.

Yes, the commands search the rpm database and list the packages that match whatever arguments you entered as part of the command, if they are installed. If there is no output it means the packages are not installed.

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Well I finally got it installed using the http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ site but now I get a GTKDeprecationWarning in the gdesklets log file and gdesklets doesn't start.

SOOOOO CLOSE!!!