Hi all,

I am having a really hard time with intltool. I am trying to install libgpod (a component for gtkpod), and after running the configure script, I get:

I have tried installing the 0.30 pkg from www.slackware.com, which didn't seem to work.

I then downloaded 0.33 source and did the following:

# tar xvf intltool-0.33.tar.bz2
# cd intltool-0.33
# ./configure
# make
# make check
# make install

This has now installed all the necessary intltool programs into /usr/local/bin.

However, after I rebooted and try to install libgpod again, I get the same error message.

This is exactly the same problem I had when trying to install Thunar, and eventually I gave up. However, I now want to move completely from Mac to Slack and this is needed for my iPod to work.

I have trawled through the forums and STFW... there just seems to be nothing in the way of help when it comes to this tool.

Does anyone have any idea where I am going wrong?

Many thanks,


Mark.

Have you actually now got two versions of intltool in two different places on the same machine?

It's possible that the previous version is still the one being used/detected. You can use whereis or slocate to find all the versions of the tool. You may need to set PATH's or move files around to make them visible to the install process.

Also, make sure you are using the very latest version of intltool and the CVS version of libgpod.

Hi ledow,

I removed the 0.30 pkg using pkgtool - so now I just have the 0.33 version files which all live in /usr/local/bin.

I believe I am using the latest version of intltool, but I downloaded the source, and didn't use CVS.

I did the same for libgpod.

How do I install them both via CVS?


Mark.

Hi ledow,

I have used slocate and found that 0.33 versions of:

intltoolize
intltool-update
intltool-merge
intltool-extract
intltool-prepare

exist in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin.

This is because I installed it twice, one using the

command.


Mark.

I'd advise cleaning off both installs (i suspect you'll have to reconfigure the source dir and run make uninstall twice) and then trying again ... the line you want to use when installing gtk stuff is:

./configure --prefix=/usr

When you've finished the make install / checkinstall / src2pkg (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=462649) step you need to run libgpod with the same line. You *can* install things all over the shop, but you then have to start messing with $PATH and $PKG_CONFIG. Failing all of that, we can have a look at how intltool is being detected and might be able to override that detection on the ./configure line (try ./configure --help for options) or in the Makefile itself.

Let us know how it goes,
- Piete.

This is just weird now!!!

Piete - thanks for your help. I removed all copies of intltool on my system as you said, and then re-installed using the following commands:

I then tried the same on libgpod. After unpacking the file, I noticed that it already comes with three files:

intltool-merge.in
intltool-update.in
intltool-extract.in

I then try to run:

again and get the same stupid error message about intltool not being > 0.21 and being too old!

How is that possible? Any idea on what I'm missing?


Mark.

Forgive me all... I have found the answer to be my own dumbness.

After examining the error message closer, I notices that the problem was that I was missing AWK. After installing that, my problem disappeared.

Many thanks for your input,


Mark.