Installing gkrellm

indienick · 03-01-2006, 01:18 PM

I've been trying to install gkrellm, but I needed to install cairo, glib, atk, gtk+ and pango beforehand. So I do so, and everything seems fine, except when I go to install gtk+.

I get the following error:

Code:

checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.8.5    atk >= 1.0.1    pango >= 1.9.0    cairo >= 0.9.2) were not met.
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively you may set the BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS environment variables
to avoid the need to call pkg-config.  See the pkg-config man page for
more details.

For glib, atk, pango and cairo I've downloaded the source tarballs, unzipped them to their own directories in /opt/ and run "./configure && make && make install". Each of them have installed properly.

How do I modify PKG_CONFIG_PATH? (as I'm assuming that's my only issue here)

foo_bar_foo · 03-01-2006, 02:05 PM

PKG_CONFIG_PATH is just a shell variable
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
is the usual way to adjust

if you already had glib gtk and freinds installed in /usr
and you installed new ones in /usr/local
you have a mess on your hands

better in situations like this to just use an older version of gkrellm

indienick · 03-02-2006, 01:41 PM

Sweet deal. Thanks for the reply man. Yeah, I don't think I had glib and gtk installed - as wierd as that may sound. I ran "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0" before I installed the package I downloaded, and it said I didn't have glib (which I find really frightening). After I installed the downloaded tarball, the command returned the version I had just installed, so I'm not too worried about that.

After checking /usr/local, I found all the drivers and header files for atk, cairo, glib, and pango, but not the *.pc files that the configure script is complaining about, so, do I copy all the *.pc files from the unzipped tarballs into /usr/lib/pkgconfig?

indienick · 03-02-2006, 01:49 PM

Please disregard that last question!

I scanned through my /usr/local folders again, and in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, I found all the *.pc files that the configure script has been complaining about.

So, do I set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to this:

Code:

# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

indienick · 03-03-2006, 02:42 PM

Well, I eventually found an RPM release of Gkrellm from a repository, and it's working like a dream.