Hi me again.

I have found a plugin that is suppose to work with "The GNU Krell Monitors" and help monitor the CPU temperature of my computer.

Well the next step in my learning process has begun and I have started trying to use a makefile. I hope you don't mind but if I talk through it I may get a lot more out of it.

I have included the install instructions and the makefile contents below. Do I need to do is rename the makefile to "test" and then in the directory that the makefile is in is key in the command "make test"? What I am assuming will happen after this is a file called "sensors.so" will be created. After this file is created it needs to be copied to either ~/.gkrellm/plugins or /usr/share/gkrellm/plugins directory. Am I right? My only problem is I searched the hard drive and this folder does not exist?

Do I have the process right so far? I could go ahead and try it, but I figured I would run it by you first if I could.

Thanks for letting me bore you again,
Steve

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The install instructions are:
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*Requirement:
gtk : http://gtk.org
gkrellm : http://gkrellm.org
*Compilation:
make
*Test:
make test
*Installation:
Installation in home directory :
cp sensors.so ~/.gkrellm/plugins
Installation in /usr
cp sensors.so /usr/share/gkrellm/plugins

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The MakeFile contains:
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all: sensors.so

sensors.so: sensors.o
gcc -shared -Wl -o sensors.so sensors.o

sensors.o: sensors.c
gcc -Wall -fPIC -Wall `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config --cflags-gdk` -c sensors.c

test: sensors.so
gkrellm -p sensors.so

clean:
rm -f sensors.so sensors.o
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All you need to do is type make. Sometimes the GKrellM plugins also come with a nice little install script where you type make install, but you can always copy the file to where it's supposed to be. in order to test it, you need only type make test. And yep, the ~/.gkrellm/plugins directory sounds about right. ~ is a 'shortcut' to your home directory (/home/steve), and the . infront of gkrellm signifies that it is a hidden directory.

A word of caution, though. This plugin requires the lmsensors package to be installed and working already, and it is not the easiest of things to get going nicely without interfering with other stuff.

OK thanks for the advice! I was trying to get some kind of program that would tell me my CPU temp and maybe I could start learning how to do the makes. But I don't want to go thought the hassle of reinstalling SuSE, at least not yet

There is an install file included in the package. I am not sure how to tell if it is a script or just a simple text file telling you what needs to be done but the contents were listed below and the file is listed as plain text in the file system.

By the way how did you know my home directory was /home/steve? Lucky guess because of the name?

Steve

cat

^^^ It's your friend! cat INSTALL will show the contents of the file. If it looks like a text file... then you can read it with cat INSTALL | less (that was the pipe symbol... don't know where it is on your keyboard, but it's next to Z on mine).

How did I guess your home dir? Transatlantic ESP! No, on most home systems people use their name as their username. I'm a little unusual in that I have gsewell as my username (I had it for 4 years at Uni and I just got used to typing it), and thymox as another user that I use for my music work. As for re-installing SuSE... I don't think it'd come to that, but I found that installing the lm_sensors package to be a little less than intuitive. Didn't destroy anything, but I did have to fiddle around with my NVidia drivers... don't ask.

Shoot if I knew how to get an IM package on here this would be a lot easier but that is half the fun I guess. Well I know it is a text file. I will have to give the sensors a try tomorrow night then

As far as my name was concerned I thought maybe it was coming up on my browser settings somewhere.

Thanks for baring with me.
Steve

if you're using suse8 just use the yast program to install gkrellm.

Now you tell me

hmmm... I guess I could do that but then that takes all the fun out of me learning how to do an install manually Do you know if it will install the lm_sensors drivers that are needed to drive this module?