i was trying to install firestarter firewall and it said that i need an xml parser so i googled the error message and did what it said which was sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell then install XML::Parser ... now when i did this the xml parser gave lots of errors and didnt install.

So i went to the site for the parser download the same version and replaced the one i have and still got the same problem .... So then i downloaded an older version but the system wouldnt read from it.

has anyone else had this problem? does anyone know how to fix it?

open up synaptic and click search and type xml parser or come on the ubuntu channel on irc.freenode.net

well i looked in synaptic but couldnt find the file to run it ... i installed it earlier and had the same problem

and also what would that search do? because the firewall only checks that file for an xml parser i dont think it would let me use any other.

can you post the ./configure error here

I did not config i was trying to install the xml parser so i could install my firewall (firestarter)

so i did:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Parser"

and got many many errors
from the file

do you have libxml-parser-perl installed?

i installed that and everything is working thanks

but one more quesiton .. i went to run another app and it didnt do anything and looked through the properties and it said nothing was set to run apps with type of 'executable' i know what its saying but what should i set it run with.

ah sorry i never used firestarter

ok i think this error is generic and not firestarter based ..

checking for libgnome-2.0 >= 2.0.0
libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0.0
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0
gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0
libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6... Package libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnome-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgnome-2.0' found

configure: error: Library requirements (libgnome-2.0 >= 2.0.0
libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.0.0
gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0
gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0
libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.




im pretty sure i need to update somethign but i have the laste pkconfig and i think i installed libgnome2.0-dev but im still getting these errors .. is there one package that updates all these things or are they indivual?

sorry to ask , but why dont u install firestarter from synaptic or apt-get instead ??

http://ubuntuguide.org/index.html#firestarter

i have tryed that before also and got this:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
firestarter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.


im pretty sure my only problem is that i need the 'libgnome-2.0' package and i looked through the package manager of ubuntu and did not find it. I then googled and still nothing. Next i went into the ubuntu irc and was told to install libgnome-2.0 so i did and i still get the same error

have u added the universe repository ??

i believe i have .... if added 'universe' in the all places where you download from in the package manager

if this is wrong or if its easy to explain could you tell me the proper way to add the universe repository

EDIT:

lignome2-0 is added and libgnome2-dev is already installed ... is that all i need or is there some other file needed?

open synaptic then tools or options i cant remember
then repository

make sure that every repository is checked then reload

man thanks for all the help i finally got it with the help of someone in the irc channel plus the stuff you said