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ok i think i have the python stuff installed but am getting:
checking for glib-2.0 libgtop-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Package libgtop-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgtop-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libgtop-2.0' found
although it is installed - mostly in usr.local and usr/local/bin - can't find the path setting to change it. I would like gdesklets but it's proving to be a nightmare to install on 9.2 - is 10 any easier??
Hi...I'm also trying to install gDesklets and getting the following error during ./configure process
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.17 pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.17... Requested 'gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.17' but version of GNOME-python is 1.99.14
configure: error: Library requirements (gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.17 pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.17) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
I just installed openoffice 1.1.1 and it has installed python2.2 directories under /usr/lib...I also tried setting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/python2.2, but still the same error...
If gdesklets wants gnome-python-2.0, where I can find it? I tried a google search but didnt find one...
ok have now tried the rpm (gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0.i586.rpm) but get:
error: Failed dependencies:
python-gnome >= 2.0.0 is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
python-gtk >= 2.0.0 is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
orbit2 is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
python-orbit is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
libgdbm.so.3 is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
libpopt.so.1 is needed by gDesklets-base-0.26.1-0.pm.0
however at least one is already installed:
rpm -ivf gnome-python-2.0.0-2*
Preparing packages for installation...
package gnome-python-2.0.0-2mdk is already installed
But the answer will help many linux users who make the same mistake with any progs... installed via package managers.
**** If your running suse 8, don't install packages from RedHat 9. ****
Sometimes you get away with it, mostly on old distro releases.
But now days the distro's are very different and you will most likely get errors like those above.
If you cant find a package for your distro/release, compile from source, its not that hard and it will save you hours of headache.
Same problem I have. I try to install gDesklets-0.30 and get:
[root@denyasp gDesklets-0.30]# ./configure
...
checking for gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.0.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Requested 'gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.0.0' but version of GNOME-python is 1.99.14
configure: error: Library requirements (gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.0.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
Then:
[root@denyasp gnome-python-2.0.3]# ./configure
...
checking for pygtk-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Requested 'pygtk-2.0 >= 2.0.0' but version of PyGTK is 1.99.14
configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
Then I try to install PyGTK > 2.0, I install it, but have no changes. I tried sources from several different sites.
I've tried to install gDesklets 3.0, too, and had the same problems. That's SuSE 9.1 in this case. I installed most of the missing libraries from SuSE rpms, but it appears that not all of them are actually registering with pkg-config - meaning that no *.pc file referring to them ends up in the pkg-config directory. I worked around that by copying and renaming other *.pc files and changing the path info, version info etc. to reflect the correct information about the installed library, but some of that is just guesswork. Mostly the configuring process then works, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the program in question will also work, as you are practically lying boldly in its face .
I'm using mandrake 10 and I tried to install gdesklets 0.3.1 with similar results as the above poster. I couldn't get /usr/lib/pkgconfig/pygtk-2.0.pc to show up at all. I didn't try their method of 'creating' new pkg-config info, but if anyone has figured out the source of this problem let me know.
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