Trying to Install Extra Compiz Fusion Plugins

devinmcelheran · 04-18-2009, 11:45 PM

I've tried a few times to compile some compiz fusion plugins, but when I do, I get an output telling me that there's no target for my "make" command, but theres a "Makefile" file in the folder that I cd'd to. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

hurry_hui · 04-18-2009, 11:49 PM

Can you post the output? As for temporary guess I think you don't have any /usr/src/linux. If you have such directory maybe you don't have .config file under it.

devinmcelheran · 04-18-2009, 11:58 PM

It's in this folder /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-24-generic, I'm not sure if that's the right one though, I don't know anything about that. I ran it again to get the output, and it worked, but with a bunch of errors, I'm trying to compile the atlantis plugin, I had it before, but my file system went bad, I had a big error that the system couldn't fix itself, and I have no idea how, so I had to reinstall everything. Now, I think I'm just missing a library or something, but I can't tell, the output would be a few pages long. Have any thoughts?

John VV · 04-19-2009, 01:18 AM

did you read the "Makefile"
sometimes you will need to do this ( one of them )

Code:

make
make all
make OLinux
make MLinux 
make sense    ( chkrootkit requires this )
make -f makefile

what did the two files " README " and " INSTALL " say to do ?

devinmcelheran · 04-22-2009, 06:30 PM

There's neither an "INSTALL" or "README" in the src files, there's only a "MAKEFILE.am"

John VV · 04-22-2009, 07:33 PM

if it is from cvs or svn then a " configure" file must be made
this should do it

Code:

autoreconf -v -i 
-- then run --
./configure --prefix= ?????

and can you post a link to the "plugin " you downloaded

devinmcelheran · 04-23-2009, 10:40 AM

so I just cd to the src directory and use those commands? And I've been trying to do a few plugins, none of them have worked. I even tried the "Elements" Script from http://www.elementsplugin.com/downlo...-recent.tar.gz I think I might be missing a dependency, some library or something, because I get a bunch of errors when I try to "make && make install".

John VV · 04-23-2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

I think I might be missing a dependency, some library or something, because I get a bunch of errors

can you post those errors so we can help .

Question why did you not use the install script
http://www.elementsplugin.com/downloads/

the install script uses apt-get and will auto download the missing stuff

and that plugin ( the elements-most-recent.tar.gz)
contains this

Code:

.
|-- Makefile
|-- elements.c
|-- elements.xml.in
|-- images
|   |-- autumn1.png
|   |-- autumn2.png
|   |-- bubbles1.png
|   |-- bubbles2.png
|   |-- fireflies1.svg
|   |-- fireflies2.svg
|   |-- plugin-elements.png
|   |-- snow1.png
|   |-- snow2.png
|   `-- stars1.png
`-- plugin.info

there IS A MAKEFILE