Can I run Gkrellm on Fluxbox without having Gnome??

cathodion · 05-21-2002, 03:28 AM

Hey folks,

I've got FluxBox installed over here (using the slackware .tgz file), and I wanted to run Gkrellm since it's a great addition to Fluxbox in my oppinion. However, i have not installed Gnome and during installation a directory named gnome is created in which gkrellm gets installed. This allready concerned me, and my doubts got confirmed when I *tried* to run gkrellm, which failed.

Anyway, does this happen because i got a bad package, or does gkrellm really need some Gnome libs??

Please help... I'm dreaming about Gkrellm at night...

CathodioN.

dorward · 05-21-2002, 03:52 AM

We can't know - you haven't posted the output of gkrellm, which should include an error message. Run it from a terminal (e.g. xterm) and tell us the errors it produces.

(tip: when you get gkrellm running use the "-w" switch to drop it in to the FluxBox slit)

cathodion · 05-21-2002, 03:59 AM

root@BrotthaThree:/opt/gnome/bin# ./gkrellm
./gkrellm: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

Hope this helps.
CathodioN

acid_kewpie · 05-21-2002, 05:32 AM

gkrellm is not a gnome application, it's a gtk+ application, which is significantly different. if you have the gtk libraries installed then there is no reason it won't work.

taz.devil · 05-21-2002, 12:24 PM

To add onto Mr. Kewpie's post...The error message in which you get is eluding to the fact that you do not have the gtk+ libs installed, as was suggested previously. Find em on the install cd for slack and install 'em with installpkg. Probably in the g dir or something like that.

cathodion · 05-22-2002, 02:15 AM

but why dit gkrellm got installed in a gnome dir... does this also happen when i install the tar.gz ?

Aussie · 05-23-2002, 12:43 AM

Because gkrellm uses GTK (gimp tool kit) just like gnome and gnome apps do.

dorward · 05-23-2002, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cathodion
but why dit gkrellm got installed in a gnome dir...

Becuase the maintainer of the Gkrellm packages decided to put it there.

Quote:

does this also happen when i install the tar.gz?

If you mean the source package - it gets installed to whereever you select with the --prefix switch to ./confgure, just like 99.9% of the rest of the software out there.

cathodion · 05-23-2002, 01:57 AM

thanks for your replies,

I installed the gtk+ package but gkrellm still doesn't run. i'll uninstall gkrellm and install it with the source file and C what happens then... I'll post the results here.

CathodioN.

casp · 07-03-2003, 01:44 PM

Im having the same problem, bu I installed gtk+ and now I get another request for the package gdk-imlib1, whitch I haven found for Slackware 8.1 :-(

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/bin/sh: imlib-config: command not found
In file included from main.c:29:
gkrellm.h:36: gdk_imlib.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
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