Installing an unzipped program

alfredo10 · 11-25-2012, 07:15 AM

Hi!
After having downloaded and unzipped a program, I'm not able to install it:

Code:

alfredo@alfredo-X46IV ~/Downloads $ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 10 alfredo alfredo    4096 Okt 26 21:00 onboard-0.98.2
-rw-r--r--  1 alfredo alfredo 1127796 Nov 25 10:13 onboard-0.98.2.tar.gz
alfredo@alfredo-X46IV ~/Downloads $ cd onboard-0.98.2
alfredo@alfredo-X46IV ~/Downloads/onboard-0.98.2 $ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo   273 Aug 24 20:51 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo  9789 Aug 24 20:51 CHANGELOG
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo   805 Aug 24 20:51 COPYING
drwxrwxr-x 2 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 data
drwxrwxr-x 2 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 docs
drwxrwxr-x 5 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 icons
drwxrwxr-x 3 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 layouts
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo 15390 Okt 26 20:58 NEWS
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alfredo alfredo   455 Aug 24 20:51 onboard
drwxrwxr-x 5 alfredo alfredo  4096 Nov 25 10:14 Onboard
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo  4496 Aug 24 20:51 onboard-defaults.conf.example
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alfredo alfredo    77 Aug 24 20:51 onboard-settings
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alfredo alfredo   303 Okt 26 21:00 PKG-INFO
drwxrwxr-x 2 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 po
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo  1171 Okt 26 20:40 README
drwxrwxr-x 2 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo 38330 Aug 24 20:51 settings_scanner_dialog.ui
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo 60332 Aug 24 20:51 settings_theme_dialog.ui
-rw-r--r-- 1 alfredo alfredo 89625 Aug 24 20:51 settings.ui
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alfredo alfredo  6224 Okt 26 20:39 setup.py
drwxrwxr-x 2 alfredo alfredo  4096 Okt 26 21:00 themes

None of the recommended commands is working:
".configure" -> command not found,
"./configure" -> file not found,
"make" -> no targets, no make.
How to proceed? README is not helpful.

I first installed onboard 0.98 via synaptik in Mint14 MATE, but it did not work correctly; so I uninstalled it and downloaded the latest
version from
https://launchpad.net/onboard

2005wind · 11-25-2012, 07:22 AM

you can setup in command
./setup.py
but you must install python!!

alfredo10 · 11-25-2012, 10:05 AM

Hi!
python was installed.

Code:

./setup.py
To build Onboard you need https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra

After having downloaded -> same message.

knudfl · 11-25-2012, 10:48 AM

Prerequisites : sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra libdconf-dev

The build command is : python setup.py build

And the install command : sudo python setup.py install

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alfredo10 · 11-28-2012, 09:35 AM

Hi!
After

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-distutils-extra libdconf-dev

-> libdconf-dev libdconf-doc libglib2.0-dev libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 python-distutils-extra zlib1g-dev
installed

Code:

~/Downloads/onboard-0.98.2 $ python setup.py build
found dconf version 0.14.0
setup.py: running pkg-config: pkg-config --libs --cflags gdk-3.0 x11 xi xtst dconf
setup.py: Package gdk-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gdk-3.0' found
Package xi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xi.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xi' found
Package xtst was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xtst.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xtst' found
setup.py: pkg-config returned exit code 256
setup.py: sdist needs libgtk-3-dev, libxtst-dev and libdconf-dev

How to proceed?

knudfl · 11-28-2012, 09:57 AM

Quote:

No package 'gdk-3.0' found
Package xi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xi.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xi' found
Package xtst was not found

gdk-3.0 is the file 'gdk-3.0.pc'.
Please use 'apt-file search gdk-3.0.pc' ( After 'sudo apt-get install apt-file' ).
Or the online search http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?su...rds=gdk-3.0.pc
→ libgtk-3-dev

xi.pc : http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?su...keywords=xi.pc

xtst.pc : http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?su...ywords=xtst.pc

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alfredo10 · 12-11-2012, 04:22 AM

Hi knudfl!

Thank you very much - your posts are helpful, I learned a lot, but I give up.

After each action I got new messages, new packages to install; I don't understand why it is so complicated to install a simple program.
I have a working Linux multiboot and I can pass each distribution.
Same problem (virtual keyboard) in the newest KDE edition of Mint, and in Mint 14 Mate BT and wireless don't work as expected.

knudfl · 12-11-2012, 04:47 AM

Quote:

I don't understand why it is so complicated to install a simple program.

Simple programs can be simple.
In a way that they use none or few installed small libraries.

But a program that looks simple may also require 100 MB
of several libraries to build, and to run.